Sooner or later the brittleness shoe will drop. Both destruction and discontinuity will erode the ability of many communities ...

Having safety features like factory-installed air bags ... in certain states. Having a hail-resistant roof. Not smoking. Being a new customer. Insuring a newly purchased or newly built home.

Traditional methods of communicating how likely an area is to flood focus on designating which zones are 'high risk.' This study suggests that this framing may give developers and homeowners a false ...

Common methods of communicating flood risk may create a false sense of security, leading to increased development in areas ...

Hurricanes have left Englewood, Florida, homeowners struggling to afford repairs or insurance – putting the character of the ...

Even an inch of flood water can cause $25,000 worth of damage, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). But standard homeowners insurance policies don't cover flooding.

The number of at-risk properties could be even higher if more houses are built on floodplains, but could be lower if flood defences are improved. Currently, 6.3 million properties are considered ...

Threshold-like relationships between fitness & phenotype are ubiquitous in nature. Erdoğan et al. use experimental & simulated evolution of an antibiotic resistance enzyme to show how such ...

Solana developers have created a quantum-resistant vault that uses a decades-old cryptographic technique to protect users' funds from potential quantum computer attacks. The solution, called Solana ...

Tech solutions like flood-resistant infrastructure and carbon capture are also offering hope for long-term protection. And policies like the Inflation Reduction Act give individuals tools to make a ...

The Bureau's flood forecasting and warning service uses rainfall and streamflow observations, numerical weather predictions and hydrologic models to forecast and warn for possible flood events across ...

The current international financial architecture is a key reason that the UN Sustainable Development Goals are failing. A landmark conference in Spain must make progress in reforming it.