LEEDS, England, December 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Hesco, manufacturers of the patented flood barrier JACKBOX™, a lightweight recyclable flood wall, has successfully won the tender to become the sole supplier…
Preliminary estimates from the Swiss Re Group using their Sigma data suggest that total losses from disaster events for 2016 will be USD 158 billion, up from USD 94 billion…
Scientists from the University of Southampton have found Arctic lakes, covered with ice during the winter months, are melting earlier each spring. The team, who monitored 13,300 lakes using satellite…
New research published in a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society identified evidence for human-influenced climate change for several heatwaves, record-low Arctic sea ice, Alaska’s intense…
Researchers from the University of Lincoln are embarking on a major new study to work out the true economic cost of coastal flooding and how farmland damaged by saltwater can…
NASA gathered rainfall data on Tropical Cyclone Vardah from its birth in the Bay of Bengal through its mNASA gathered rainfall data on Tropical Cyclone Vardah from its birth in…
Following the winter flooding last year, more than 1,200 troops across the UK have been put on 24-hour standby to help in the event of flooding this winter. As part…
Scientists at the University of Southampton have found that the majority of instances of coastal flooding around the United Kingdom in the last 100 years have been due to moderate…
In the days before Hurricane Matthew, researchers used satellite maps of soil moisture to help forecast where the power would go out along the East Coast. At the American Geophysical…
A year after Storm Desmond struck the UK and at a time when the UK’s Committee on Climate Change have called for urgent action to address the risks to the…
ClimateWise, a global network of 29 insurance industry organisations which is convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, has warned of the urgent need to address the…
Research from the University of Southampton has provided robust evidence that wet regions of the earth are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier but it is happening at…
A recent study into the August floods in Louisiana says that the extreme rainfall was brought about by an unusual set of conditions that are likely to increase in frequency…
Regional Plan Association today released a study showing that parts of the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metropolitan area are at risk of being permanently flooded by sea level…
On 06 December, Gov. John Bel Edwards released a statement on the disaster relief funding included in the Continuing Resolution (CR) released by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. The government…
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) announced last week that UK insurers have a small army of people ready to go into immediate action in the event of any flooding…
