The new defense codes will affect around 106,000 tax lots, requiring new construction to incorporate specific features.

Sally Washington and Jim Scully argue that public leaders need to exercise their stewardship responsibilities and think well into the future.

Natural” world heritage sites, such as the Galápagos Islands, Serengeti national park and Great Barrier Reef, could be ...

Paris is one of many cities around the world grappling with how to adapt and design urban areas as climate change drives more ...

One part of Sydney has several suburbs with near-perfect scores. Less than an hour away, it was a different story.

Read below on what those levels mean. In order of risk and severity, here are the five risk categories and what each of them means, according to the SPC: The National Weather Service defines a ...

Flooding can cause serious damage to homes and leave families with hefty repair bills. According to the Environment Agency, 6.3 million properties in England are in areas at risk of flooding. Of those ...

The study concludes that without aggressive intervention, the European death toll from climate change will continue to rise, leaving millions of lives at risk. The findings make it clear that ...

Jimmy Butler is still on the Miami Heat’s roster, but the post-Butler era has already seemingly begun for the Heat. On a day the Heat suspended Butler for the third time this month as it ...

By Nico Grant Reporting from San Francisco The Trump administration declared on Friday that the Gulf of Mexico had been renamed the Gulf of America, but popular mapping services from Google and ...

For example, about 58% of St. George, Utah’s 180,000 residents live in a “very high” wildfire risk area. Beyond metropolitan areas, FEMA maps show high-risk places in states not typically ...

But emergency and public works personnel may not have much time to rest: Any rain that follows the fires will bring a heightened risk of mudslides ... while their extreme heat bakes surface ...