Tag: Flooding
Choosing the Right Home Is Tough. Climate Change Is Making It Harder. – Inside Climate News
Trying to buy a home comes with a seemingly endless list of things to consider: What’s the commute to work like? Can you qualify...
‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain – Inside Climate News
GONZALES, Texas—More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and its tributaries where they cross one of Texas’ leading...
A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow – Inside Climate News
Even as exposure to floods, fire and extreme heat increase in the face of climate change, a popular tool for evaluating risk has disappeared...
Jon Lindsay, the longest-serving Harris County judge, dies at 90 | Houston Public Media
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Former Harris County Judge Jon Lindsay died on Wednesday morning. He was 90 years old.
No information was immediately available...
Parents are divided on whether their girls should return to flood-scarred Camp Mystic | Houston Public Media
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Patrick Hotze's three daughters made it home safe from Camp Mystic after July's catastrophic floods that killed 25 campers and two...
Houston city officials spar over using $30 million from stormwater fund for building demolition | Houston Public Media
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Houston Mayor John Whitmire's proposal to allocate tens of millions of dollars from the city's stormwater fund for building demolitions was...
Asia-Pacific faces ‘$500bn-a-year’ hit from rising seas if current policies continue – Carbon Brief
Coastal flooding could bring $500bn of annual damages...
Guest post: How adaptation has cut flood deaths and losses in Europe – Carbon Brief
When flooding strikes, it can devastate vast areas,...
Elon Musk is trying to build $760M tunnels under Houston. A Texas congressman is quietly helping him | Houston Public Media
This article is co-published with ProPublica, the Houston Chronicle and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is...
Tens of millions of dollars pour into Texas flood relief funds. The need is still unknown | Houston Public Media
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