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

TAMPA, Fla. — Marilyn Mendez Arnett lives in an area of Tampa currently considered a ‘non-flood zone’ by FEMA, but that could change as the federal agency reports flood maps are under ...

“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 ...

“Flooding has become an annual event, between the months of April and October,” Ugonna Nkwunonwo, a flood risk analyst at the University of Nigeria, told Al Jazeera. He warned that while flood ...

But far more people could be at risk. FEMA's 100-year flood zone maps include just under 8 million properties. But First Street estimates that nearly 18 million homes are at risk of flooding.

In short: to fix the problem. The newly completed plan, available on the Amite River Basin Commission's website, identifies how we can revise FEMA’s flood maps to remove thousands of homes from ...