NRDC and the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) petitioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to update the agency’s rules for building and land-use in the nation’s floodplains, and to develop flood maps that project future flood risks.

Climate change increases the risk to hard-hit central provinces, but few want to leave the only home they know.

The year 2020 will, without a shadow of a doubt, be etched into the collective memory of human society for a long, long time.