“Twenty kids dead in Texas and you take a vacation?” someone asked the Texas senator after spotting him abroad.

Officials were worried about the high costs of the system, which could have saved lives.

Massively expensive weather events are getting more common.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

If hordes of cops are going to keep polluting New York’s increasingly flood-prone subways, the least they could do is grab a bucket and be helpful.

So far, America’s plan seems to consist of walling off wealthy neighborhoods with hulking gray fortifications and leaving lower-income areas out to dry. It doesn’t have to be like this.

The floods that hit the state this week were intense—but spending after Hurricane Irene helped to keep a total catastrophe at bay.

Torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides in California are a preview of an alarming future.

More than 34 million people are at risk, as the rainstorms in California continue and the death toll keeps rising.

The German river, subjected to a massive nineteenth-century engineering project that facilitated coal transport, now needs engineers to intervene again due to global warming.

Imagine if three-quarters of U.S. states were flooded.

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.

In a warming world, failing to invest in infrastructure will be deadly.

Among the less-discussed parts of Build Back Better: It would help keep people from drowning.

In order to adapt to the age of climate change, insurance rates need to increase.

Ronnie Scott lost his wife and neighbors in 2016’s deadly flash floods. Now he urges others to take environmental issues seriously.

What interviews with flood, wildfire, and drought survivors can teach us about how to live amid the threat of climate change

The dual threat of late-season river flooding and early-season hurricanes is a sign of things to come for our warming world.

Mike Rosmann left seminary to become a clinical psychologist for farmers. Now, as historic flooding ravages the Midwest, he's never been more overwhelmed.

The catastrophic flooding in the Midwest is forcing more farmers to consider a stark choice: quit or consolidate.