Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts (SIREN), a new project in Italy aims to save 70 years of hydro-meteorological measurements by crowd-sourcing the work of volunteers. The work will involve digitizing historical…
The Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ) is expecting claims for damages caused by severe flooding and landslides that struck Auckland in late January 2023 to exceed $1 Billion NZD…
Thousands of trees are to be planted as part of a flood defence project in northern England. England’s Environment Agency said 7 hectares of woodland and over 5km of hedgerow…
Insurers in Germany have warned that new homes continue to be built in flood-risk areas in the country. In the last 23 years, over 32,000 residential buildings have been constructed…
A recent study has found that the housing market in the USA is overvalued by as much as $237 billion due to unpriced flood risk. The increasing cost of flooding…
A new study by an international team of scientists reveals that 15 million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with around half of…
A team of scientists from Pakistan, the USA, Switzerland and Singapore has shown that the cause of severe flooding such as those in Pakistan in 2022 is the intensification of…
Total US economic losses from the flooding in California in January 2023 could reach US$5-7 billion, according to Moody’s RMS®, the global catastrophe risk modelling and solutions company. Moody’s RMS also…
PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organisation providing catastrophe insurance data disclosed its second industry loss estimate for devastating floods in Southeast Australia in October 2022. The second estimate of the insurance…
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with its rapid urbanization and desert landscape, is highly vulnerable to flooding. For this reason, flood managers have built an extensive system of drainage ditches and…
New research by Forest Research estimates Great Britain’s trees contribute over £400m annually in benefits in the fight against floods. Trees and woodlands have long been known to play a…
Researchers have identified a new method – described as a type of nonstationary flood frequency analysis – for predicting flood frequency more reliably than currently used models by considering changing…
A study led by researchers from Brown University in the US has found that melting ice from glaciers can lead to droughts and floods in East Africa and Indonesia. With…
The Chief Executive of the Environment Agency (EA) in England, UK has emphasized the importance of natural flood management in the fight against growing flood risk and climate change. In…
Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia have found that rainfall extremes at sub-hourly timescales are intensifying as a result of climate change much faster than those…
Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have developed an innovative technique using satellites and radar imaging sensors to map flooding. The technique could provide more detailed information to…
