The director of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency sent his federal counterpart a letter this month urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reconsider proposed policy changes and ...

Steamboats were an important part of the lumber industry. They would push and pull log rafts from the St. Croix River to as ...

A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem — but in just two counties so far.

"It's a game of inches." Experts issue warning over rising threat that could leave thousands of Americans stranded: 'It will ...

Rivers are Earth’s arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest flood event in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The storm crashed into the Gulf Coast and caused devastating flooding when levees failed in New Orleans, where people ...

While casual visitors might not know it, Kawuneeche Valley on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park was once a ...