As flood risk increases, Local Government Minister Simon Watts says he’s focused on designing a rates capping system that ...

Logan residents have until the end of this week to lodge concerns over the city’s new draft flood mapping, amid warnings it ...

Findings by Climate Central, Scientific American, and USA Today show how caskets in Louisiana float like battleships during ...

A LEGISLATOR is pushing for the approval of a measure that mandates the preparation of multi-hazard maps for every city and municipality in the country and integrate these tools into disaster risk ...

Saratoga City Council approved a new map that extends the boundary of the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to encapsulate Cal Fire’s changes to the city’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone map.

People keep following Google Maps blindly, putting their lives in danger; this time, a driver was seemingly distracted by the ...

A countywide effort to identify and reduce local hazard risks, a multi-jurisdiction hazard plan, is available for public ...

Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly Niwa) has just released the first-ever national model of flood risk across the entire country, with a public flood hazard viewer so people can see their area’s ...

Santa Monica faces $1.5 billion losses from natural disasters. Sea level rise, wildfires, and earthquakes pose greatest risks ...

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

The revised flood maps, which are part of the draft Logan Plan, incorporate scenarios such as a one-in-2000 annual chance flood event and a Probable Maximum Flood (PMF), in line with State Planning ...

The impact of an earthquake on people and property depends not only on the earthquake's characteristics like magnitude and ...