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Beyond helping emergency managers better alert downstream communities to flooding events, tracking rapid runoff allows water managers to improve reservoir management.

In 1900, coastal communities could expect certain extreme water level events to occur on average once in a century; in other words there was only a 1% chance to experience such an event in any given year.

Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras — they had only about ten thousand pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big storm systems looked like blurry blobs.

Experts weigh in on health risks from extreme weather and what impacted communities across the Americas could see this year.

In the rugged and mountainous Drakensberg grasslands of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, farmers rear sheep for food, cultural practices and financial security.

Research links water-related disasters to heightened disease risk among older adults. Yet, disaster planning continues to ignore them.

The oceanic phenomenon known as El Niño, which increases temperatures worldwide, has officially begun, according to U.S. weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Climate hazards have always occurred naturally, but human-induced global warming is changing much of the world as we know it.