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• Hurricane season has been busy. So have Carolina researchers. (UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Science | September 2, 2025) 

• Radio: Extreme weather and the future of hurricane prediction; plus, filling in North Carolina's flood records (WUNC | August 5, 2025) 

• Flooded Futures: UNC-CH researchers Antonia Sebastian and Miyuki Hino reshape how the southeast handles storms. (UNC-Chapel Hill Research | July 30, 2025)

• UNC study: 43% of flooded NC buildings were outside FEMA’s hazard zones (wral news | July 21, 2025)

• UNC study: Repeat flooding more widespread than thought. (Coastal Review | July 16, 2025)

• From flooded basements to smarter planning: What NC storm survivors can teach us. (North Carolina Health News | July 16, 2025)

• UNC study sees flooding outside NC high-risk areas. Can AI reveal blind spots? (The News & Observer | July 15, 2025)

• FEMA floodplains determine who must get insurance. NC's are insufficient (wunc.org | July 15, 2025)

• Studies of eastern flooding guide work in western NC (UNC-Chapel Hill | July 15, 2025)

• New study targets past flooding as key to helping property owners assess climate threats (nbs news | July 15, 2025)

• New study reveals widespread and overlooked flooding across NC (UNC-Chapel Hill | July 14, 2025)

• New study reveals widespread flooding across NC is more common than previously thought (WECT | July 15, 2025)

• Study finds repetitive flooding far more common across North Carolina than thought (phys.org | July 14, 2025)

• Radio: Helena Garcia, Ph.D. candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, discusses extreme rainfall and inland flooding in North Carolina (WPTF Afternoon News | July 10, 2025)

• Record rainfall in Chapel Hill reveals growing inland flood risks (WRALNews  | July 7, 2025)

• Many Americans are buying homes in flood zones - and don’t realize it (National Geographic | October 11, 2024)

• Helene was a warning. NC must get ready for climate shocks (The News&Observer | October 7, 2024)

• ’All Things Considered’: As the climate changes, inland areas face increase flood risk (npr | October 5, 2024)

• ’So many hollers’: Appalachia’s remote terrain slows recovery from Helene (USA Today | October 3, 2024)

• ‘It's going to be a mess’: The flood insurance crisis following Helene’s wreckage (Politico | October 2, 2024)

• Asheville tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens: Experts (abc News | September 30, 2024)

• Media Briefing, Hurricane aftermath: Damage to infrastructure, health, and the environment (SciLine | September 18, 2024)

• In a sea of flood-risk data, how can cities know which information to use? (Smart Cities Dive | September 17, 2024)

• Beating the heat, one tree at a time: Sustainable Triangle Field Site explores heat vulnerability on campus (UNC Institute for the Environment | July 18, 2024)

• ’A Beautiful Place That Has a Dragon’: Where Hurricane Risk Meets Booming Growth (The New York Times | November 19th, 2023)

• 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)