Shelved plans from ’60s for Tennessee Valley Authority project in N.C. unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ...

Over the past few months, contractors in Juneau have been constructing roughly 2 miles of temporary barriers, in hopes that they will protect against a glacial flooding phenomenon that devastated ...

In October, CPP reported that large dams on the Catawba River were unable to prevent flooding during Helene. In order to sustain dam safety and power generation, Duke Energy released massive amounts ...

Each rainy season in Nigeria brings with it a familiar nightmare of cities submerged, communities displaced, livelihoods ...

A proposed Louisiana law could dramatically reshape how wetlands are defined and protected—drawing concern from environmental groups, legal experts and floodplain advocates, Louisiana Illuminator ...

Northern Italy has been hit by a series of devastating floods in recent years. In March 2025 and the previous autumn, heavy ...

In early medieval Italy, people dug canals and drained wetlands not just to farm new land, but also to manage flooding and ...

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When powerful storms hit your city, which neighborhoods are most likely to flood? In many cities, they're typically ...

The legislature has changed the state’s legal definition of wetlands, leaving doubt over whether permits will be needed to ...

There are calamities so devastating that in their aftermath, they ought to bring a nation to a halt, inspiring somber moments ...

"While that project does not currently cause flooding, if that dam were to fail, it would cause flooding and probably loss of ...