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People swim near a partially flooded pavilion near banks of Yangtze River

How China’s nature-based solutions help with extreme flooding

The Big Fix

This year, record rainfall in China caused the longest river, the Yangtze, to overflow, leading to serious damage. But environmental experts say that a range of ecological strategies like tree planting and floodplain restoration over the last decade have helped to mitigate the impact of extreme flooding.

A woman moves her things onto a table in a flooded home.

How floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries

Environment
Damaged vehicles are seen after a flash flooding in Shiraz, Iran, March 26, 2019.

Iran wasn’t ready for these huge floods. But they should get ready for more in the future.

Environment
Port Arthur Texas flooding

FEMA maps lack up-to-date information on flood risk

Environment

Death of a Valley

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Pecan Acres

Frequent flooding in Louisiana could lead to buyouts for entire neighborhoods

Economics

“Let us all come together so we can go as one and move another place instead of flooding out every year because we’re getting older,” says one resident of Pecan Acres, in Pointe Coupee Parish. “We’ll be better off. We won’t got to worry about worrying when the storms come.”

An elderly woman in a wheelchair is rescued from the flood waters of tropical storm Harvey in east Houston, Texas.

One of Houston’s most vulnerable communities faces the floods

Conflict

A group founded by immigrants in wheelchairs battles Hurricane Harvey.

Residents stand outside their homes as damaged cars are seen after a tornado hit the town of Ciudad Acuña, state of Coahuila.

Deadly tornado flips cars, wreaks havoc in Mexico. Across border, Texas faces flood.

Environment

A category 4 tornado swept through Ciudad Acuña, a town situated on the Mexico-US border, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas. And, heavy rains from the storm system have flooded parts of Texas. Here are some photos of the aftermath.

Some of the nearly 250,000 Malawians displaced by recent flooding in the southern part of the country sit for a photo at a school where they've taken refuge. Far from the epicenter of international flood relief efforts, the 4,220 people in this isolated c

Here’s what happens when increasingly severe weather meets deforestation

Environment

Massive flooding in Malawi have forced nearly a quarter-million people from their homes, and many say they will never go home. Where will they go?

Malawians evacuated after devastating floods in late January wait out another deluge at a makeshift shelter. As many as 200,000 people have been displaced and crops were destroyed by what the country's president says is the worst flooding in its history.

The flood of the half-century — and you probably haven’t heard about it

Environment

The flooding has displaced nearly 200,000 people in Malawi, destroyed crops and brought fears of disease. In a region already prone to flooding, the future may hold even worse.

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