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Can We Predict Natural Disasters?
Protecting against natural disasters requires a multipronged approach.
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Time-lapse: July 2025 flash floods in Texas
The Texas flash floods—which resulted in the Guadalupe River rising by 31 feet (9.4...
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Global warming and its impact explained
The perceptible warming of Earth over the past 150 years has been caused by an increase...
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flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2008
After devastation from severe flooding in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 13, 2008,...
SSgt. Oscar M. Sanchez-Alvarez—USAF/U.S. Department of Defense
Cotentin Peninsula prior to D-Day
Aerial photograph of an inundated zone on the Cotentin Peninsula south of Sainte-Mère-Église,...
U.S. Army/National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Iowa: severe flooding, 1993
A barge transporting cars to dry roads during severe flooding in Iowa in 1993.
Andrea Booher/FEMA News Photo
Johnstown, Pennsylvania: 1889 flood
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in June 1889, after the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Flooding from the Barak River
Aerial view of Silchar, Assam, India, on June 19, 2022, during a flood caused by...
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2010 flooding in Pakistan
Areas affected by flooding in Pakistan in 2010.
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