Communities in the Gulf of Mexico are all too familiar with the whims of nature and power of the sea. This year’s hurricane season brought power outages, heavy rain, downed trees, property damage, and ...

Most people hear the word "flood" and picture a flood. They hear "heatwave" and picture a heatwave. Simple enough, right? The problem is that the real world doesn't follow those clean, single-story ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jamaica was still recovering from Hurricane Beryl, which sideswiped the island in July 2024 as a Category 4 storm. The parish of ...

The team will use a technology called LIDAR to detect land changes, map vulnerable areas and predict where these hazards could occur next. Hurricane Helene led to mudslides, flooding and other events ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Carter Lodge hangs precariously over the flood-scoured bank of the Broad River in Chimney Rock Village, N.C., on May 13, 2025, ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis, and commentary from academic experts. Brian J. Yanites is an Associate Professor of Earth and ...

First came a dry spell that parched the land, then a spark, followed by some wind. Suddenly, swaths of South Carolina were ...

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as ...

Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in profound ways that will affect the hazards local residents face far into the future.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jamaica was still recovering from Hurricane Beryl, which sideswiped the island in July ...