The New Yorker

In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?

On the evening of July 3rd, as the sun went down over Kerrville, Texas, a small city of some twenty-five thousand people and the seat of Kerr County, the water in the Guadalupe River was just four ...
CNN

This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why

Once synonymous with leisure and reprieve, summer has increasingly become a season marked by anxiety and disruption. Fossil fuel pollution — alongside other compounding factors — has transformed these ...
The Conversation

Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America

Jeffrey Basara receives funding from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and NOAA. I study extreme precipitation events along with the complex processes that lead to the devastating damage they ...
The New York Times

Pakistan’s Floods Are a Climate Change Warning

Pakistan, among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, has been battered by floods and extreme heat as critics say its government needs to do more. By Elian Peltier and Claire Brown Elian ...
The New York Times

Beijing Evacuated Thousands Before Floods, but Not the Most Vulnerable

The recent flooding that killed 31 in a single nursing home exposed flaws in emergency planning as China braces for more extreme and unpredictable weather. By Lily Kuo and Berry Wang Lily Kuo reported ...
CNN

Streets turn to rivers as deadly flooding inundates northern Beijing

Days of torrential rain have killed at least 30 people in the northern outskirts of Beijing, state media reported Tuesday, as China grapples with yet another deadly rainy season marked by extreme ...
Reader's Digest

These Are the 5 Most Devastating Floods to Sweep Through the U.S. in the Last 100 Years

When it comes to severe weather events, disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires tend worry people the most. They’re the ones you know are coming, after all, so you have time to worry.