US Floods

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: US FloodsAs deadly flooding devastates more communities, often the poorest and most disinvested, residents are banding together to research the problems and press for solutions. The post Flooding is pummeling the Southeast U.S. These organizers are fighting back. appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Grist
View In: US FloodsAs seas rise and storms become more intense, some 40 million Americans living in floodplains are facing greater risk of disaster. Local, state, and federal officials are increasingly looking at managed retreat, or buyouts, as a way to get people out of harm’s way. In this series, Grist profiles thre...

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: US FloodsThe global trend in more extreme tropical cyclone rainfall events has big implications for a vulnerable island. The post Warming climate makes extreme hurricane rains more likely for Puerto Rico appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Grist
View In: US FloodsIn Houston, a generations-deep community is being dismantled by mandatory buyouts.

NationofChange
View In: US Floods“[W]e have to start thinking about what the threats are going to be in the future as a result of climate change, so they can put the mitigation measures in place.”

World Socialist Web Site
View In: US FloodsDrivers were stuck in traffic on Interstate 95 Monday for more than two hours, and 600 Rhode Island households reported power outages. An unoccupied building collapsed and Brown University students were forced to evacuate their dorm.