Help keep Salon independent

Topic: Floods

A Texas flag hangs from a storm-damaged tree on the banks of the Guadalupe River on July 13, 2025 in Center Point, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texans have long known flood risks

Logan Jaffe - ProPublica
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem participates in a roundtable event with President Donald Trump in Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA

Amanda Marcotte
A Texas State Flag flys in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas flash flood is a preview

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at a news conference to unveil the Take It Down Act to protect victims against non-consensual intimate image abuse, on Capitol Hill on June 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Cruz pushed NOAA cuts before floods

Cheyenne McNeill
Advertisement:
Search and rescue workers search near debris looking for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas geography makes floods deadlier

Hatim Sharif - The Conversation
A search and rescue volunteer holds a T-shirt and backpack with the words Camp Mystic on them in Comfort, Texas. (Photo by Danielle Villasana/Getty Images)

Camp Mystic becomes center of tragedy

Colleen DeGuzman - The Texas Tribune
Rescuers battle debris and weather to rescue survivors and recover the lost. 12 campers are still missing, and 70 are dead, including 21 children. ( Eric Vryn / Getty Images)

Search continues in deadly TX floods

CK Smith
A firefighting helicopter performs a water drop as the Lake Fire burns in Los Padres National Forest with evacuation warnings in the area on July 6, 2024 near Los Olivos, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Heat making Earth "weird" — and deadly

Matthew Rozsa
Advertisement:
Children are crossing a dried-up lake at Boklung near Kathiatoli in Nagaon District, Assam, India, on April 13, 2024. (Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Summer could be even hotter than 2023

Matthew Rozsa
A person carries vegetables and fruits through a flooded street after the overflow of the Guaiba river at downtown on May 5, 2024 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. (Matheus Piccini/Getty Images)

Death toll from floods in Brazil hits 83

Matthew Rozsa
Eastern chimpanzee female 'Nuru' aged 21 years sitting holding her infant male 'Nyota' aged 1 year (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii). Gombe National Park, Tanzania. (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Great apes struggle as climate worsens

Matthew Rozsa
A Greek flag flutters in the wind during a wildfire in Chasia in the outskirts of Athens on August 22, 2023. (ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Think this summer was bad? Just wait

Émile P. Torres
Advertisement:
A view of devastation in disaster zones after the floods caused by the Storm Daniel ravaged the region in Derna, Libya on September 12, 2023. (Abdullah Mohammed Bonja/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Libyan floods fueled by climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Lone penguin standing on ice floe (Getty Images/Andrew Peacock)

Sea level rise may be catastrophic

Matthew Rozsa
Homes along Gross Loop off of KY-15 are flooded with water from the North Fork of the Kentucky River. (Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Weather alerts become a lifesaver

Anya Slepyan, Claire Carlson - Grist
An old American car passes through a flooded street in Havana, on September 28, 2022, after the passage of hurricane Ian. (YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

Lylla Younes - Grist
Advertisement:
Commuters make their way through a flooded street during monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad on July 24, 2022. (AKRAM SHAHID/AFP via Getty Images)

33 million displaced by floods

ZOHA TUNIO - Undark
A flooded street is seen after the passage of hurricane Fiona in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on September 19, 2022. (JOSE RODRIGUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change supercharging hurricanes

Matthew Rozsa
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) | Aerial view of homes submerged under flood waters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky, on July 28, 2022 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Climate bill exposes GOP nihilism

Amanda Marcotte
Firefighters survey tornado damages in downtown Mayfield on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night leaving a large path of destruction and multiple fatalities. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Despite everything, we need each other

Kirk Swearingen
Advertisement:
Flooding at a subway station in upper Manhattan this past week. (Twitter)

Flooded subways in NYC show climate woes

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
On Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m. EDT (17:30 UTC), the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite showed newly formed Tropical Depression 11 just after it made landfall along the Texas coast. Credit: (NASA Worldview)

Imelda dumped 40 inches of rain on Texas

Kate Yoder - Grist
In this Thursday, May 23, 2019 photo, floodwaters overtake a home in Holly Bluff, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Climate crisis: Farmers face disaster

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
(Zach Frailey/The Free Press via AP)

The big problem with so much asphalt

Greta Jochem - Grist
« Previous
Page: 1
Next »
Advertisement: