GENEVA: Malaysia and Thailand have agreed to strengthen cross-­border disaster preparedness efforts, particularly in managing ...

UN-SPIDER has released a new Recommended Practice that improves flood mapping by integrating Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ...

Your home may be at risk for flood damage even if you don’t live in a flood zone. As a result, skipping flood insurance could ...

As climate change intensifies extreme weather, two new NYU studies show 3D flood visualizations developed by a ...

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 ...

During an earthquake scenario with the highest level of subsidence, or land sink, the area at risk of flooding would expand ... outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off California, Oregon and Washington could cause some coastal areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding and radically ...

The results were striking. Once people were shown flood risk maps, their preferences changed decisively—away from scenic seafront properties and towards locations that were inland and considered ...

(CBS12) — In about two weeks, more than 16,000 properties in Palm Beach County will be affected by changes FEMA made to flood maps. People living in our area are now under a higher-risk for ...