Attendees look at a marked up map of the Guadalupe River during a public hearing of Texas Senate and House Select Committees on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding in Kerrville, Texas, Thursday, July ...

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater threat than previously understood. Intensifying extreme rainfall events may ...

Drive through any part of New England today and you’ll see signs of drought: brown grass, wildfire warnings, early fall foliage and low rivers. One hundred percent of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine ...

Drought conditions could continue into winter despite a good chance of a wetter-than-usual autumn and flood risks increasing, officials say. The Met Office and Environment Agency said the current ...

This article was produced in partnership between Columbia Journalism Investigations and Documented. It was co-published by The Guardian and republished by Floodlight. Gricelda experienced her deciding ...