Mar 01 Thousands evacuate from worst Australian floods in a decade By Rod McGuirk, John Pye, Associated Press Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and hundreds of thousands more have been told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast are inundated by the worst flooding in more than a… Continue reading
Dec 12 Watch 6:17 Climate change threatens Michigan's Fishtown and its historic shanties By Hari Sreenivasan, Aaron Martin, Laura Fong Preservationists in a tiny lakeside community in Michigan are using new approaches to fight the threat of flooding caused by climate change. While the fishing industry has struggled in the region, saving the historic buildings in Fishtown is critical to… Continue watching
Nov 25 Washington faces threat of more rains, floods By Associated Press A week and a half after damaging floods in Washington state, forecasters are warning that multiple "atmospheric rivers" threaten to once again drench the Pacific Northwest beginning Thanksgiving Day. Continue reading
Nov 24 Washington county's flood damages could reach $50 million By Associated Press Rain drenched the county for three days and the Nooksack River surged over its banks Nov. 14, inundating the communities of Everson, Nooksack and Sumas. Continue reading
Nov 18 State of emergency in British Columbia with more deaths expected following floods, mudslides By Jim Morris, Rob Gillies, Associated Press Every major route between the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, where Canada's third largest city of Vancouver is located, and the interior of the province has been cut by washouts, flooding or landslides following record-breaking rainfall. Continue reading
Nov 17 Canada dispatching military personnel to assist with British Columbia floods By Associated Press Military helicopters already helped evacuate about 300 people from one highway where people were trapped in their cars overnight Monday following a mudslide. Continue reading
Nov 17 Flooding devastates parts of U.S. Northwest, Canada By Lisa Baumann, Associated Press Officials in the small city of Sumas, Washington, near the Canada border called the flood damage devastating. Across the border, authorities say the body of a woman was recovered from a landslide northeast of Vancouver, British Columbia, and two others… Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch 6:21 Barely a cloud in the sky and Portland, Maine, is flooding By Sam Weber, Christopher Booker The Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest-warming bodies of saltwater on the planet. In Portland, Maine, sea levels are expected to rise 10 to 17 inches by 2030 from the levels in 2000. Christopher Booker reports on how… Continue watching
Nov 03 Bangladesh's villages bear the brutal cost of climate change By Julhas Alam, Aniruddha Ghosal, Associated Press Impacts of climate change from more frequent cyclones to tidal flooding are devastating Bangladesh, where an estimated 30 million people may be displaced from the coast. Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch 4:03 Critical infrastructure is vulnerable to flooding from climate change—why it's not just coastal cities at risk By PBS NewsHour When we think about flooding, it's usually in coastal towns and cities, or places right next to large rivers. Taking into account rising sea levels and severe weather events, a non-profit research group assessed the flood danger to infrastructure in… Continue watching