BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karen Clark & Company (KCC) today announced that the KCC US Flood Reference Model Version 2.0 has been certified by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection ...

A months‑long investigation by KFF Health News compared the locations of more than 7,000 hospitals with high‑resolution flood ...

Some Chicago area hospitals are at risk of significant flooding both in and around the buildings, according to new KFF Health ...

Generating the best possible models of storm surge, flooding and coastal conditions has been a major goal of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center. While the computing power necessary ...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent drives his vehicle through high water in a neighborhood two days after Hurricane Ida’ landfall near Baton Rouge, La., August 31, 2021. (CBP photo by Glenn Fawcett) When ...

University of Melbourne PHD student Niels Fraehr, alongside Professor Q J Wang, Dr Wenyan Wu and Professor Rory Nathan, from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, developed the ...

A new article presents a new methodology to create a watershed-scale flood model based on LiDAR data. The widespread flooding that submerged parts of the province's most densely populated regions in ...

Flooding is one of the main physical hazards that is projected to become more frequent and severe as the climate warms. Construction firms, financial institutions, the insurance industry, and ...

Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones around the world. The influx is as much as 10 times more than previously thought, and if the trend continues on its current trajectory ...