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.

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

The maps show that under the low emissions pathway, the thresholds for extreme heat, drought or rainfall will only be crossed ...

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

The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory warning to parts of Marin County. San Francisco and Alameda County are currently on flood watch. Do you know your flood risk? Here are 5 ...

There is a racial and ethnic component in terms of risk, too. Hospitalization from four days of extreme heat exposure was higher in Asian, Black and Hispanic individuals compared to whites.

UTCI outperformed WBGT in predicting EHI. Outside the Southern USA, EHI risk was elevated at lower UTCI. Associations varied over climate conditions and generally did not increase with climatic heat ...

According to a forecast map produced by AccuWeather, beginning on Wednesday night, there is a risk of severe thunderstorms in an area that spans parts of central, eastern and southern Texas.

Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and ...