BLACKSBURG, Va. – Virginia Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory is helping recovery crews understand the impacts of Helene on our region. “We were contacted by the Virginia Department of Environmental ...

Heavy rainfall can cause rivers and drainage systems to overflow or dams to break, leading to flood events that bring damage to property and road systems as well potential loss of human life. One such ...

The concepts and their implementation were some of the key recommendations that came from the Lismore Flood Ready project workshops, which wrapped up yesterday night at the council chambers. Executive ...

As climate change intensifies extreme weather, two new NYU studies show 3D flood visualizations developed by a cross-institutional research team dramatically outperform traditional maps for ...

Global flood risk models were developed to identify risk hotspots in a world with increasing flood occurrence. Here we assess the ability and limitations of the current models and suggest what is ...

Humans have tried to predict the weather for as long as there have been floods and droughts. But in recent years, climate science, advanced computing and satellite imagery have supercharged their ...