With Storms Desmond, Eva and Frank that battered parts of Britain between early December 2015 and early January 2016 causing damage that estimated to cost insurers £1.3 billion (US$1.58bn) in…
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) recently published a report containing its findings on the barriers to the implementation of Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) in England, following…
Zimbabwe continues to be plagued by the threat of heavy rain and flooding in the wake of the passage of Tropical Cyclone Dineo across southeastern Africa in the week of…
Tropical Storm Dineo (TC 05S), which formed in the Mozambique Channel between southeast Africa and Madagascar earlier this week, was upgraded to Tropical Cyclone status just before it made landfall…
Over the last few weeks, FloodList has published a series of articles on floating architecture, looking at different ways designers and architects have approached the problem of providing homes and…
DHL is a household name in the courier and freight logistics industries, but less well-known is that the Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) group has been involved in an airport disaster…
A previous article in our series on floating architecture highlighted the work of Dutch architecture firm Architectstudio Marlies Bohmer in creating the floating community of Waterbuurt in Amsterdam. The point…
In an earlier article “Is Enough Being Done to Protect European Cultural Heritage Resources From Flood Risk?” FloodList examined the process of incorporating disaster protection for heritage resources into broader…
With rising sea levels accompanying climate change, and a shortage of developable land in rapidly urbanising regions, are floating cities a feasible solution? Several Floodlist articles highlight populated areas in…
Zimbabwe’s Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and severe localized downpours and the possibility of associated flash flooding in the Matabeleland North and Midlands Provinces, all…
In our series A New Approach to Storm-Water Management and Flood Reduction, about Low Impact Development (LID) and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), there are many examples of ways to encourage…
At least one person is confirmed dead and seven reported missing in Johannesburg, South Africa, after flash flooding hit the eastern suburbs of the country’s largest city on Wednesday 09…
It is 50 years today since the devastating floods in the city of Florence, Italy. It is thought that over 100 people died in the flooding, with around 20,000 people…
The presence of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s), or ‘drones’ as they are commonly known, has grown exponentially in a wide variety of fields over the last few years, including in…
All the various institutions that collect and disseminate weather and climate information in the West African country of Benin are now working together under one umbrella. These include the meteorological…
In a floodlist article of 25 August, 2016, it was reported that the Bihar State disaster management department in India had estimated that the current floods had affected almost 3…
