Residents of Brevard’s Cherry Street neighborhood are still in RVs, carrying two mortgages, or living in construction zones.

Almost every coastal city showed an increase in sea-level rise, with water levels off Southeastern states showing some of the ...

Millions of homes across the U.S. face risk of damage from hurricane-force winds and storm-surge flooding this year.

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...

Now that hurricane season has arrived, hundreds of waste lagoons could be flooded by climate-amplified storms, threatening ...

Despite complicated politics of trying to rebuild and mitigate against future floods, local knowledge provides path for flexible solutions.

Shelved plans from '60s for TVA project in NC unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ecology will make new dams more rare.

FEMA’s maps underplay risks everywhere, but especially in mountainous regions like rural North Carolina and Tennessee where Helene unleashed the most catastrophic flooding. When the research ...

FLOOD MAPS. SIGN UP FOR LOCAL EMERGENCY ALERTS ... most notably the ferocious winds and powerful waves. However, North Carolina hurricane history has shown us that the deadliest and most ...

The city of Fayetteville told Locks Creek residents Tuesday night they could make it easier for them to get in and out of their neighborhood during a flood but could not do much about the flooding ...

But the flood maps don’t account for a warmer climate ... warm as Helene gathered strength and headed for Western North Carolina. At least three quick studies agree that climate change made ...

Information about site-specific BFEs can be found on the NC Flood Risk Information System website at https://fris.nc.gov/,” a county announcement states. The maps will be used to figure out flood ...