Flood buyouts are an active climate mitigation strategy used in the US to mitigate flood risk and remove people and property away from active flooding zones. Buyouts lessen human risk, decrease legal burdens, and restore land. Certainly, reducing loss due to flooding while also increasing green spaces after-the-fact is beneficial. … [continued]
Houston,TX.,9/1/2005--Thousands of hurricane Katrina survivors from New Orleans are bussed to refuge at a Red Cross shelter in the Houston Astrodome.
FEMA photo/Andrea Booher
As the wake-up call of Hurricane Katrina fades from memory, a new documentary aims to jolt a sleeping nation back into action.
Cape Coral was a booming real estate paradise a few years ago. Now, it is reportedly the “worst housing market in America.” Housing prices have dropped 11% in the past two years, with about 12,000 homes in the area now for sale, and prices continuing to drop. Realtor José Echevarria … [continued]
ChatGPT generated this panoramic image to illustrate the stark contrast between normal and climate-intensified flood levels, highlighting how a modest increase in rainfall due to global warming can drastically raise water height, submerge vehicles, and endanger homes and infrastructure
The devastating floods that swept through Central Texas in early July 2025 are a human tragedy, first and foremost. Current reports have 120 dead and more than that still missing. Thousands more have lost homes, and the economic damage will likely run into the billions. This catastrophe, unfortunately, has a … [continued]
Floods in Texas recently get lots of thoughts and prayers but no action from politicians who dare now say the words “climate change.”
They were warned not to cut NOAA funding. They did it anyway. And many innocent lives were lost. CBS published an article, dated May 5, under the title, “Former National Weather Service leaders warn about ‘loss of life’ from NOAA cuts.” The opening paragraph of the article reads, “The five living … [continued]
As we all know, under the current Trump administration, the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) — led by Elon Musk for most of its life, including during the relevant period we are going to highlight here — made cuts to numerous real government agencies. That included the National Oceanic and … [continued]
Flooding from more powerful storms may make much of the Southern US uninhabitable, leading to massive migrations within the nation.
Climate Change is happening and everyone is surprised. And yet we have known it was coming for over 50 years.
Road closed due to flooding in Colusa County, California, following an atmospheric river storm that delivered heavy rain and snow across Northern California. Photo taken on January 12, 2023. (Image credit: California Department of Water Resources)
Growing Nationwide Trend of States Requiring Flood Disclosure Hundreds of thousands of Americans already live in homes that have flooded. And a home that has flooded once is likely to flood again. Unfortunately, far too many buyers and renters were never told whether their potential dream home was a flooding nightmare … [continued]
