“The rain blows in and brings all of these leaves to cover over catch basins and, all of the sudden, you’ve got a flooding situation,” said Aggarwala. “In some of those catch basins there was a foot of wet leaves they had to scrape out in order to get the water to go down the drain.”

In May 2023, Italy's Emilia-Romagna region experienced devastating, if not unprecedented, floods that caused widespread damage to infrastructure, homes, businesses, and farmland. Seventeen people lost their lives,

Floods are the second leading cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S., and their dangerous effects stretch far from the coast. Floods happen not only along coastlines, where rising seas lead to more high tide and storm surge flooding, but also in ...

The country is naturally vulnerable to frequent typhoons and some flooding, but the situation is being made worse by climate change, experts say.

The worsening consequences of the climate crisis could fatally "derail" climate action, researchers have warned.

The agency has identified priority locations to address storm flooding and developed interagency actions to target each piece of the climate crisis.

Regardless of whether they believe climate change is real, 69% of homeowners took the phenomenon into account when buying a home. That’s according to a new study by Clever Offers, which also found that nearly the same 68% view homeownership as riskier today than 10 years ago due to climate change and natural disasters.

This isn’t just a personal disaster. It’s a warning sign of a much broader crisis.

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.