GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Grand Rapids manufacturer is pitching emergency crews a faster, less labor-intensive alternative to sandbags as Michigan communities face increasingly frequent flooding. Cascade ...

Some cities face flood threats too large for ordinary walls, pumps, or neighborhood defenses to manage alone. Engineers have answered with movable gates and immense surge barriers designed to control ...

Improvements and expansions are coming to the barrier system that helps protect Juneau from glacial outburst flooding, and they’ll be fully funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. USACE will also ...

Flood Risk America (FRA), a national leader in flood protection products, announced the opening of a new in-house test ...

The Battery Park City Authority’s plan to overhaul a more than mile-long stretch of Lower Manhattan waterfront is taking shape, with a mix of flood walls, deployable gates and streetscape upgrades to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HESCO flood barriers protect property against glacial outburst flooding near the Mendenhall River, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. - Marc ...

For many places in the world, the future is going to be wet. Climate change is already intensifying heavy rains and flooding in parts of the U.S., and it’s only expected to get worse. A recent study ...

Under blue skies and sunshine, heavy metal flood barriers between about 4 and 6 feet tall were set up across Boston on Friday. Boston’s flood preparedness demonstration, which doubled as a training ...

Flooding is the top environmental hazard identified in the UK's National Risk Register, after a pandemic. Around one in six homes are currently at risk of flooding—a value likely to increase. Many ...

This article has been updated to clarify a statement by View Drive resident Malachi Thorington. Flood-impacted Juneau residents expressed frustration about city leaders pursuing a short-term HESCO ...

Projected storm surge of up to 15 feet would be the maximum the hospital’s flood barrier can handle. Tampa General Hospital's AquaFence flood barrier has been deployed since Hurricane Helene. The ...