They are built on floating platforms ... that grows submerged in the middle of the flood-filled lake and swamps. "As long as these trees remain, our houses can thrive [despite] the flood," Babanto ...

The method is a low-cost way to reach a certain height above sea level: pile up dirt from elsewhere, pour concrete on top and build to ... is too small. A house in a 100-year flood plain has ...

According to some commenters, the family who built the levees had done so before in times of flooding. Aside from the one house, Moore’s other footage shows flooding in Bogota, where more than ...

When houses are built on that valuable resource, the water has to go somewhere and it results in faster running rivers and streams which increases flood risk to houses downstream of the new ...

A South Dakota couple who lost their home in this year’s flooding are getting a replacement built by Sioux City High School students. Dave and Judy Oberg put in the winning bid on the house and ...

SPRING GREEN, Wis. (CBS) -- A fire damaged a section of the famous House on the Rock attraction in southern Wisconsin Friday morning. The House on the Rock reported on its website that a fire ...

The Manobo indigenous people live and thrive on a vast wetland in the Philippines – despite dealing with dozens of storms and floods ... the houses you [non-Manobo] continue to build still ...