Clever engineering and regular maintenance keep a 100-year-old dam and levee system operating, protecting more than $10 billion in property annually.

Civil Defence says the evacuation alert system for Hawke’s Bay is more resilient and the region is “better prepared” for a ...

Ratepayers in Edgecumbe, Westland, Christchurch and around NZ are paying an unprecedented price for increasingly frequent ...

Cyclone Gabrielle killed 11 people nationwide and destroyed thousands of homes in February 2023. Two years on, its grieving victims are warning authorities have failed to make the changes needed to ...

The UK government is committed to investing £2.65 billion into flood defences across England, hoping to protect lives, homes ...

The cost of the Miami Conservancy District’s flood protection system is currently paid by the roughly 39,000 property owners in the floodplain of the 1913 flood.

The Government said many flood defence projects have stalled ... a complex process and neglects innovative approaches. The system has also faced criticism in the past that it favours schemes ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being ...

Key schemes include the Bridgwater Tidal Barrier Flood Defence Scheme in Somerset (£43m), Derby’s ... These include tree planting, wetland restoration and blue-green drainage systems. EA chair Alan ...