The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, has asked the Nigerian government to declare an environmental state of ...

Inland areas have suffered severe flooding in recent years, experts note. And standard homeowner policies don’t cover flood ...

The two states accounted for more than a quarter of the 378 flood-and fire-prone ... risky areas. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications in December, First Street Foundation ...

Flood hazard data comes from First Street Foundation ... areas across 46 states and Washington, D.C. Roughly a quarter of these face elevated risk in both categories. Managing a fire- or flood ...

In an effort to reduce future flood risks and avoid tragedies tied to severe weather, Metro Nashville is continuing its ...

But Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations and insurance providers have raised the standards for home builders and developers, requiring increased wind and flood protection. So well ...

Florida built 77,000 new properties in high-risk flood areas since 2019, the most in the nation, according to an analysis by climate-modeling firm First Street Foundation for The Wall Street Journal.

But those shopping for a place to live largely don't have that information, and may unwittingly move into flood-prone areas ... that directs water toward the foundation rather than away from ...