And yet as the late naturalist Peter Matthiessen, who wrote his most famous book about the snow leopard ... dehydrated from the elevation. Underneath my thermal shirt, my lungs were doing double ...

Flood insurance mandates loom for Harris County residents who fall in updated FEMA flood zones, though official maps have ...

“We're lowering the base flood elevation, so we're removing some of those structures from (experiencing) impacts from a 100-year flood event.” Reeves said the city plans to solicit bids ...

Base flood elevation is the expected water level of a flood estimated to have a 1 percent chance of occurring in any given year, also known as a 100-year flood.

Researchers and community members worked together to develop recommendations for how Little Cumberland Island can mitigate ...

Part of the zoning rules say that for any new project, it's “required that residential parking be located above the base flood elevation." That is the sentence that Nicholas Drosopoulos and his ...

The Brant Rock Village Overlay District, approved in 2014, requires that a new mixed-use project must provide residential parking above the base flood elevation. The brothers say this requirement ...

Failure to adopt the Rate Maps would suspend the city from the National Flood Insurance Program, making access to insurance more difficult for Ithaca property owners, according to Lisa Nicholas.

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

By using poetry and by collapsing hierarchies, I have tried to create different timelines and a mind map. Hence this book is a personal document as well—of a way of living. View Full Image Mithu ...