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NRDC Report: Repeatedly Flooded Homes Demonstrate Policy Failures

A rapidly increasing number of federally insured properties flooding repeatedly signals the need for state and federal action to improve protections for homeowners, a new Natural Resources Defense Council analysis shows. NRDC used data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency …

Floods Triggered by Monsoon Rains in Myanmar Have Killed 5 Displaced 60,000 Since Mid-July

BANGKOK (AP) — Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar have killed five people and displaced about 60,000 since mid-July, an official said Friday. The director of the ministry of social welfare, relief and resettlement, Lay Shwe Zin Oo, …

Florida Mops Up After Floods Close Fort Lauderdale Airport

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — South Florida kept a wary eye on a forecast that called for more rain as it cleaned up Thursday from an unprecedented storm system that dumped upwards of 2 feet of rain in a matter …

New Zealand City to Get More Dangerous Rainfall After Flood

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A dangerous amount of rain is forecast Tuesday for New Zealand’s most populous city four days after Auckland had its wettest day on record in a storm that claimed four lives. A state of emergency …

Virginia Resilience Lab Will Roll With Rising Tides

The Elizabeth River Project’s latest work in Norfolk, Virginia, doesn’t fight the rising tide. It will roll with it. The environmental group is constructing a 6,500-foot resilience lab along Colley Avenue and Knitting Mill Creek. The building has an intentional …

UN Appeals for $160M to Help Pakistan amid ‘Epochal’ Floods

CHARSADDA, Pakistan —The United Nations appealed on Tuesday for $160 million to help Pakistan as army helicopters rescued stranded families and dropped food packages into inaccessible areas following “epochal” rains and flooding. The historic deluge, mainly triggered by abnormal monsoon …

Weather Whiplash: Summer Lurches from Drought to Flood

Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a drought. Sound familiar? It should. The Dallas region is just the latest drought-suffering-but-flooded locale during a summer of extreme weather …

Thousands Rescued at Flood-Hit Hindu Pilgrimage in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Emergency workers rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Saturday. At least …

Climate Change a Factor in ‘Unprecedented’ South Asia Floods

SYLHET, Bangladesh (AP) — Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered unprecedented floods in Bangladesh and northeastern India, killing dozens and making lives miserable for millions of others. Although the region is …

Officials Try to Deliver Aid to Flooded South Asia Villages

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries. The …