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How the feds could get the national flood insurance plan right

Set to come into effect in the next few years, the program would mean even people living in high-risk areas or who experience storm surges would be able to access affordable insurance through the plan.

By Cloe Logan | News | August 21st 2023

UBC forestry professor Younes Alila is shown in an undated handout photo. Handout photo by University of British Columbia, Paul H. Joseph

Researcher finds clear-cutting leads to bigger floods, urges more selective logging

Reducing clear-cut logging and paying more attention to where trees are removed will help reduce the flood risk in British Columbia, a researcher says.

By Ashley Joannou | News | August 3rd 2023

People stand on a hill surveying cars abandoned in floodwater in a mall parking lot following a major rain event in Halifax on Saturday, July 22, 2023. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese

The climate change link between wildfires, flooding in Nova Scotia

The fingerprints of climate change are all over the supercharged weather witnessed this year in Nova Scotia -- and the rest of the country -- from raging wildfires to devastating flooding.

By Hina Alam | News | July 25th 2023

Victims of flooding from monsoon rains walk with their cattle in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, on Sept. 9, 2022. AP Photo/Pervez Masih/File

Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains. And that’s a problem

A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study found.

By Seth Borenstein | News | June 28th 2023

Buildings sit in the water along the shore following hurricane Fiona in Rose Blanche-Harbour le Cou, N.L. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

Private investment needed to bolster climate infrastructure

A new report by the Canadian Climate Institute says private capital is needed to invest in climate adaptation infrastructure as extreme weather events like fires and floods become more acute by the year.

By The Canadian Press | News | May 16th 2023

Photo by Neil Palmer/Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Human-driven climate chaos fuelling Horn of Africa drought

The region has been suffering its worst drought in 40 years since October 2020, with extended dry conditions punctuated by short intense rainfall that has often led to flash flooding. There have been five consecutive seasons of rainfall below normal levels.

Race Against Climate Change

By Fiona Harvey | News | May 5th 2023

When Tijuana’s floodwaters mix with sewage and trash, they carry that waste to California via the Tijuana River, creating health risks and causing beach closures. Photo courtesy of Tijuana Citizens' Flood Monitor

When it comes to extreme weather, there’s a blizzard of insight in crowdsourced data

Tijuana’s Citizens’ Flood Monitor offers a model for data collection in the flood-affected West.

Race Against Climate Change

By Caroline Tracey | News | March 28th 2023

An end slide area sign just before the Cottonwood River on Highway 97 South is shown just outside of Quesnel, B.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023. File photo by The Canadian Press/James Doyle

Logging and forest loss may have awakened ancient B.C. landslides

A series of ancient landslides have been "reawakened" in British Columbia's Cariboo region, costing hundreds of millions in federal disaster assistance funds and prompting warnings thatlogging is connected to the problem.

By Brenna Owen | News | March 23rd 2023

Pamela Cerruti carries clothing from Pajaro Coin Laundry as floodwaters surround machines in the community of Pajaro in Monterey County, Calif., on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Thousands of Californians evacuate as another atmospheric river pounds state

The latest powerful atmospheric river to drench California put nearly 27,000 people under evacuation orders on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, due to flooding and landslide risks. On the central coast, workers hauled truckloads of rocks to plug a broken river levee amid steady rain and wind.

By Haven Daley & John Antczak | News, US News | March 15th 2023

Floodwaters cover most of Pajaro Valley, Calif., on Sunday, March 12, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group via AP)

More rain to dump on flooded California

Wet, miserable weather continued across huge swaths of California on Sunday, March 12, 2023, as an atmospheric river that caused major flooding flowed eastward, while a new storm threatened another onslaught of rain, snow and gusting winds as soon as Monday.

By Nic Coury & Stefanie Dazio | News, US News | March 13th 2023

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