This year, with hurricane season underway, a new advanced warning system will alert North Carolina officials in real time which specific roads and bridges are likely to flood soon, so the state can prepare and warn the public.

Nearly a dozen states are using real-time, hyper-local monitoring to assess potential flooding at specific bridges or roads.

Two million dollars does not buy much flood reduction. That’s one of the conclusions reported during the June 3 public presentation of flood-reduction projects on the Wapsipinicon River and its tributaries.

Larry Weber discusses the Iowa Watershed Approach in this radio interview.

Eight hundred new farm ponds, wetlands, reconnected flood plains, and water and sediment control basins were added to the state’s landscape over the past 5 years. It’s part of a $97 million initiative from the University of Iowa.

A $97 million flood mitigation project is now complete in Vinton.

A group of environmentalists from around the state gathered in Storm Lake on June 7 for an Iowa Watershed Approach Project bus tour of local conservation projects.

A group of environment key players from around the region and the state gathered in Storm Lake Tuesday for an Iowa Watershed Approach Project bus tour of area watershed conservation projects.

Prolonged drought, severe sea-level rise, dramatic flooding, raging wildfires. Climate change is having tangible impacts in regions across the country. Here’s what the models are telling us.