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Devastation continues more than a week after Hurricane Florence

26 September 2018

More than a week after Hurricane Florence reached the US, the record-breaking amount of rain it dumped is still causing devastation

Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising

7 March 2018

Rising seas are already boosting the flood risk in places like San Francisco, but the problem is even worse than that because land is also subsiding

England's soggy place names could predict the climate future

19 December 2017

Anglo-Saxon England was unusually warm and stormy. Place names coined then could hold clues to how the weather will get wetter and wilder as the climate changes

New York should prepare for 15-metre storm surges by 2300

23 October 2017

Due to rapidly rising seas, floods that once struck New York City every 500 years will soon hit every five years

The downtown Houston skyline and flooded highway 288 are seen August 27, 2017 as the city battles with tropical storm Harvey and resulting floods

Houston got rich on urban sprawl, and now it’s paying the price

6 September 2017

Unfettered economic growth guaranteed Houston's vulnerability to a natural disaster that hit the poorest hardest, says analyst Owen Gaffney

A group of people, walking through flood waters that are up to their thighs

The cities in the firing line for the next Hurricane Harvey

1 September 2017

Of five cities set to see the worst losses from flooding by 2050, three are in the US. Yet the country is unprepared for worsening weather brought by climate change

Texas may be just as vulnerable when next big hurricane hits

29 August 2017

Houston is battling unprecedented floods from Hurricane Harvey – and yet Texas’s plans to protect itself from floods remain stalled

Satellite shows clear-up operation after severe floods in China

2 August 2017

The photo shows teachers cleaning the mud from a school sports ground and running track in Jilin province, north-east China – an area devastated by floods