HUNT, Texas Crews used backhoes and their bare hands Wednesday to dig through piles of debris that stretched for miles in the search for more than 160 people believed to be missing in the flash floods ...

New research, based on forest fires in Australia, proves there is a significantly higher risk of large-scale flooding when major deforestation has occurred in catchment areas. The chance of ...

On the evening of July 3rd, as the sun went down over Kerrville, Texas, a small city of some twenty-five thousand people and the seat of Kerr County, the water in the Guadalupe River was just four ...

Scientific and societal value of paleoflood hydrology / Victor R. Baker, Robert H. Webb, P. Kyle House -- Climate variability and flood frequency at decadal to millennial time scales / Kelly T.

Years before the flooding took more than 90 lives in Kerr County, Texas, local officials knew residents faced threats from rapidly rising water. They started planning a flood warning system, one that ...

As record flooding is expected in Mount Vernon, the surrounding Skagit River Basin have experienced repeated flood events over more than a century, according to historical records and county data.

When disaster strikes in the Texas Hill Country river basins known as “Flash Flood Alley,” history often repeats itself: A reeling community picks up the pieces to recover, and then, with renewed ...

KERRVILLE — The scarred landscape here cast an eerie aura. It had been days since the destructive power of the Guadalupe River — which in the predawn hours of July 4 became monstrous and punishing, ...