Dozens of small communities were submerged by Alabama Power and TVA to create dams to bring electricity to rural areas in the ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government downplays flood risks for homeowners across the country—but ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has repeatedly delayed releasing Harris County’s updated flood maps, leaving much of the existing floodplain information outdated. Real estate listings do ...

Cal Fire officials compared the hazard maps to those of flood zones. The zones are based on the likelihood that an area will burn over decades. But they do not show the risk or potential damage a ...

“Dead zones” are deadly: Few or no organisms can survive in their oxygen-depleted, or hypoxic, waters. Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead zones become ...

your evacuation zone does not impact FEMA Flood Zones or FEMA Flood Insurance rates. St. Johns County also encourages residents and business owners to prepare for hurricane season by visiting ...

Elevation is a structural solution to a recurring environmental challenge” - Elwin OrdoyneSLIDELL, LA, UNITED STATES, May 28, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- In flood-prone communities throughout South ...

Current regulations in Hamilton County allow essentially unlimited building in a flood plain if it is raised to an elevation at least one foot above the flood zone elevation. The “flood plain ...