In the News
Our research sometimes attracts media attention, here are some examples:
- Grant available for NC students to study coastal resilience (WITN | March 13, 2023)
- ‘We’re making our jobs harder.’ NC builds thousands of homes in flood-prone areas (The News&Observer | February 7, 2023)
- Inundating the Gulf: Fewer Americans Covered by Federal Flood Insurance Even as Population Grows in Flood-prone Areas (APM Research Lab | July 28, 2022)
- Hurricane Harvey Hit 5 Years Ago. Its Floodwaters Did Not Strike Equitably (NYTimes | August 25, 2022)
- ‘I can’t do it again’: Can Appalachia blunt the devastating impacts of more flooding, climate change? (USA Today | August 8, 2022)
- Inundating the Gulf: Fewer Americans covered by federal flood insurance even as population grows in flood-prone areas (APM Research Labs | July 28, 2022)
- Flood insurance hikes could prove costly for waterfront homeowners (WITN | July 26, 2022)
- New research from NC State suggests many more may be at risk for flooding than FEMA says (WNCT | March 9, 2022)
- Carteret County to receive millions from state budget for flood mitigation (WNCT | November 30, 2021)
- Scientists weigh in on latest United nations climate report (WITN | October 21, 2021)
- FEMA ranks Charlotte among one of the nation’s top for flood mitigation (Fox46 Charlotte | October 14, 2021) and this twitter thread
- Editorial: From Houston to New York, disaster is the new normal. We must act on climate change. (Houston Chronicle | September 7, 2021)
- A $26-Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area from Rising Seas (Undark | June 14, 2021)
- Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages (Grist | May 18, 2021)
- Prone to floods or not, now is the time to buy flood insurance (Houston Chronicle | April 10, 2020)
- Natural bayou better when floods threaten Houston (Rice News | March 11, 2020)
- Property values plummeted and stayed down after Hurricane Ike (AGU | December 10, 2019)
- The Impact Of Flooding Depends More On Societal Change Than Climate Change (Forbes | November 5, 2019)
- The False Comfort of Higher Seawalls (The New Republic | October 29, 2019)
- Extreme Flooding from Florence Likely, Due to a Converge of Threats (Scientific American | September 12, 2018)
- Comment: Out of bounds: Rethinking U.S. flood risk delineation (Earth Magazine | August 3, 2018)
- Ever Heard of ‘Compound’ Disasters? It’s New to Experts, too (ClimateWire | July 3 2018)
- Flooding really was worse in the old days (The Times | May 29, 2018)
- Hurricane Harvey: Most fatalities occurred outside flood zones, Dutch-Texan research shows (ScienceDaily | April 19, 2018)
- Houston Speculators Make a Fast Buck from Storm’s Misery (The New York Times | March 23, 2018)
- Lessons from Hurricane Harvey: Planners will have to make room for nature while designing cities (Re:think| March 31, 2018)
- Flood Problems: Experts give city of Houston’s drainage system a failing grade ( abc13 | February 21, 2018)
- Global Warming Tied to Hurricane Harvey (Scientific American | December 14, 2017)
- Scientists Link Hurricane Harvey’s Record Rainfall to Climate Change (The New York Times | December 13, 2017)
- Climate change made Harvey’s 51 inches of rain 3 times more likely, scientists say (The Houston Chronicle | December 13, 2017) and this video
- Floods: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO | October 29, 2017)
- Decade of data shows FEMA flood maps missed 3 in 4 claims (Rice News | September 11, 2017)
- Water Damage From Hurricane Harvey Extended Far Beyond Flood Zones (New York Times | September 1, 2017)
- TU Delft Trekt Lessen Uit Harvey (de Ingenieur | August 31, 2017)
Check out our research mentioned on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver at 7 minutes and 30 seconds!
