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Authorities across Pakistan have issued flood alerts due to ongoing heavy monsoon rains. The National Disaster Management ...

After over 100 were killed in Texas flash floods, Michigan camps grieve and remind families of their safety regulations ...

A week after deadly flash floods, as rescue turns to recovery, more than 160 people remain missing in Kerr County, Texas.

This part of Texas Hill Country is known for flash floods. Why were so many people caught off guard when the river turned ...

As the death toll climbs in Texas, the Trump Administration is actively undermining the nation’s ability to predict—and to ...

Warnings predicted both Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.

For months, President Donald Trump and his administration have floated the idea of doing away with the Federal Emergency ...

People awoke from water rushing around them during the early morning hours of July 4, all along the Guadalupe River in the ...

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and ...

Jaque White and her five children escaped the rising waters of the Guadalupe River just in time. Now they have to rebuild.

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or ...