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A man walks through a king tide flood in South Florida.

Environment

Crowdsourcing Data to Track How Rising Seas Affect King Tide Flooding

After collecting thousands of data points from a crowdsourced initiative, the Virginia Institute for Marine Science created maps that will improve regional flooding predictions.

In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma (left) and Shakbaria (right) rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

Field Notes: The Soil Embankments of Gazipara, Bangladesh

Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

Pacific Standard Staff

A man helps evacuate a woman from a flooded street in Mandra, Greece, on November 16th, 2017. A sudden overnight downpour flooded three towns near Athens, killing at least 15 people.

Environment

Viewfinder: Flash Floods Hit Greece

A man helps evacuate a woman from a flooded street in Mandra, Greece, on November 16th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

Environment

Could Houston’s Largest Dams Crumble Under the Flooding From Hurricane Harvey?

The infrastructural failure could release a torrent of water into portions of the city that are already submerged—including downtown.

Kiah Collier, Neena Satija, Al Shaw & Lisa Song

Environment

Trump Rolled Back the Country’s Best Flood Protection Standards Two Weeks Before Harvey

A little-noticed executive action removed rules that would have held new infrastructure projects to a higher storm-proofing standard.

A woman carrying a baby crosses a street during a heavy downpour of rain at Taksim in Istanbul on July 27th, 2017.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Heavy Downpour in Istanbul

A woman carrying a baby crosses a street during a heavy downpour of rain at Taksim in Istanbul on July 27th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

A Tunisian woman cleans her orthopedic shop in Manouba on June 6th, 2017, following a storm the previous night.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Flooding in Tunisia

A Tunisian woman cleans her orthopedic shop in Manouba on June 6th, 2017, following a storm the previous night.

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Hermine Is No Sandy—It Could Be Even Worse

New York City is probably in the clear, but the storm could prove catastrophic for some parts of…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

A Look at Louisiana’s Disastrous Flood

In the wake of the record flooding ravaging Louisiana, a look at some of the facts and figures.…

Pacific Standard Staff

Environment

How Often Climate Change Has Caused Floods, City by City

Find your own (coastal) hometown!