Hurricane Harvey is expected to hit ... land areas can exacerbate storm surge flooding. The storm surge threat extends up the coast, to the low-lying Houston-Galveston area. This scenario is ...

The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...

Cities including Seattle, San Diego, and Chicago are all sinking, a new study found.

Hurricane Harvey hit land on Friday night as the ... or above record levels during the next several days, with flooding in the Houston and Galveston area complicated by the combination of storm ...

These rotating lists of names are maintained by the World Meteorological Organization's hurricane committee ... Allison nailed the entire Houston metro with massive flooding, the city's costliest ...

the WMO hurricane committee can vote to retire the name from use on a future storm. This avoids any confusion or insensitivity over the use of particularly infamous storms like Harvey, Ian ...

It's already driving flooding ... Hurricane Harvey. When part of the ground sinks slower, or even rises while the spot just next to it sinks, that puts a lot of strain on whatever is built there. At ...

As it gained strength, it became the first major hurricane to hit the area in more than a decade. Within a four-day span, Hurricane Harvey dropped 40 inches of rain and caused catastrophic flooding ...

But the researchers say sinking land inland can destabilize infrastructure as well as worsen flooding ... Hurricane Harvey in 2017, he found that 85 percent of the flooded area in the Houston ...