Harvey’s impacts in Houston provide an ideal case study for unsustainable human-environment interaction.

A Houston Chronicle article reveals FEMA's new flood maps for the Houston area — which are expected to be released later this year — will be the first in the nation to show a more accurate ...

Less understandable is how often these flood maps were ignored in Houston, where policies encouraged development in flood-prone areas while reducing the region’s natural defenses to flooding.

Harvey inundated rivers, bayous, canals and highways in some of the most densely populated parts of the Houston metro area, which is home to 4.5 million people.

Hurricane Harvey is expected to cause major flooding in Houston, and there are a few reasons why. At the top of the list are poor city planning and the city's location. The fingers only started ...

According to research, FEMA's flood plain maps for that area missed about 75 percent of the damages from Ike, Allison, and three other storms.

One in 5 new homes permitted in Houston in the year after Hurricane Harvey is in a flood plain — some on prairie developed for the first time after the storm — even as new rainfall data showed ...

We tracked the number of complaints to the city's 311 hotline, and you can now see the flooding hotspots in this interactive map: ...

The flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey will force Houston to redraw flood maps. Homes ...

HOUSTON — Voters in Houston and its surrounding county were marking Saturday's anniversary of Hurricane Harvey coming ashore by deciding whether to approve the issuance of $2.5 billion in bonds ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood plain maps for parts of southeastern Houston were woefully out-of-date long before Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas coast, a new study suggests.