The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch has resigned, calling the floods the “tipping point.”

If Noem’s handling of the Texas floods is anything to go by, we are in for a rough ride.

Republicans’ frantic project to end “woke” climate research has led them to axe funding aimed at helping mass transit cope with extreme weather events.

The Homeland Security secretary offered a stunning defense of her response.

Donald Trump really is the reality TV president.

The Department of Homeland Security responded to the deadly floods in Texas days later—thanks to Noem.

As search and rescue operations continue in Texas, some Mexican emergency personnel are there to help.

“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.