RISC-KIT – Training in Coastal Risk Assessment
RISC-KIT is to offer training in the use of their Coastal Risk Assessment Framework (CRAF), a tool used to identify risk “hotspots” for coastal flooding. Training will also focus on…
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Papua New Guinea – UN Report Says Urgent Need for Flood Warning Systems
A new report “Assessment of the Early Warning Systems for inland and coastal flooding in Papua New Guinea” was presented on Thursday, 28 April, 2016, by Climate Change Development Authority…
Record Balkan Floods Linked to Jamming of Giant Airstreams
Disastrous floods in the Balkans two years ago are likely linked to the temporary slowdown of giant airstreams, scientists found. These wind patterns, circling the globe in the form of…
Somalia – Flash Floods in 2 Regions Leave 9 Dead
Torrential rainfall in Somalia has triggered deadly flash floods in 2 regions of the country in the last week. Despite the recent rainfall, many parts of the country, in particular…
Historic Preservation Needs to Be Part of Disaster Planning
New research from the University of Colorado Denver shows many communities in the USA fail to take historic preservation into account when planning for natural disasters, risking a loss of…
Saving Lives Through Real-Time Flood Forecasting
In October 2013, Austin, Texas experienced record levels of flooding. The historic Onion Creek Halloween floods caused several deaths, devastated hundreds of homes, and nearly $30 million in damage. Because…
Building Climate Resilience with Nature in South Florida
New partnerships and pilot projects in Miami-Dade County, Florida, aim to use natural infrastructure to make communities safer and more resilient. MIAMI, FL, March 29, 2016 – In an effort…
Speeding Up Accuracy of Flood Risk Assessment
Research from the University of Adelaide hopes to provide advances in the planning for flood risk, thanks to a new, faster method of assessing the highly complex factors that cause…
Flooding Alleviated by Targeted Tree Planting and River Restoration, Scientists Discover
A study by an international team of scientists, led by the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, has shown that strategic planting of trees on floodplains could reduce the height of…
Wetland Enhancement in Midwest Could Help Reduce Catastrophic Floods of the Future
CORVALLIS, Ore. – According to a new study from Oregon State University, restoration of wetlands in the Midwest has the potential to significantly reduce peak river flows during floods —…
Global Warming Increases Rain in World’s Driest Areas
Global warming will increase rainfall in some of the world’s driest areas over land, with not only the wet getting wetter but the dry getting wetter as well. New research…
(Rain)cloud Computing: Researchers Work to Improve How We Predict Climate Change
Rao Kotamarthi and Jiali Wang spend their days looking at a future Earth. At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the two scientists work on simulations and…
Citizen Science to Prevent the Effects of Floods
Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) are involved in the development of a mobile phone application that allows user to share information about floods and their effects aiming to…
Scotland’s National Centre for Resilience to Be Set Up at the University of Glasgow
A dedicated new facility to enhance Scotland’s resilience capability to combat natural hazards is to be set up at the University of Glasgow. Scotland’s new National Centre for Resilience (NCR)…
PERILS Reduces Loss Estimate to £662M for Floods from UK’s Storm Desmond
PERILS AG has today disclosed its second loss estimate for the floods in the UK from 04 to 24 December, 2015, following storm Desmond. The revised estimate of the property…
When Sea Levels Rise, Damage Costs Rise Even Faster
A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany have developed a method to quantify monetary losses from coastal flooding caused by sea-level rise.…
