Researchers at Lancaster University and the European Space Agency are developing new artificial intelligence (AI) systems that could help to predict and warn of flooding by processing images and other…
Buyer beware: single-family homes in floodplains – almost 4 million U.S. homes – are overvalued by nearly $44 billion collectively or $11,526 per house on average, according to a new…
Aptly called Earth’s “Third Pole,” the Himalayan region is home to the largest ice mass outside of the planet’s polar regions. However, rising temperatures and extreme precipitation events make the…
More than a third of the Antarctic’s ice shelf area could be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4°C above pre-industrial levels, according to new…
Runoff from Houston’s 2016 Tax Day flood and 2017’s Hurricane Harvey flood carried human waste onto coral reefs more than 100 miles offshore in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine…
Many slopes in the Campania region of southwestern Italy are covered with layers of volcanic soil, the result of repeated eruptions over the course of millennia. As the impacts of…
January 2021 saw the launch of development of a new coastal flood awareness system in Europe that could become a candidate to join the Copernicus suite of services. The Copernicus…
As the planet warms, glaciers are retreating and causing changes in the world’s mountain water systems. For the first time, scientists at the University of Oxford and the University of…
An innovative life raft is taking urban flood protection to a whole new level. ARK Rooftop Liferafts mount to any building’s exterior vertical cladding, and with the press of a…
LINKS, a project funded by the European Commission, is identifying ways to strengthen disaster resilience through the uses of Social Media and Crowdsourcing technologies. The project brings together 15 participating…
The article below is provided by C40 Cities Finance Facility and refers to a report Flooding in East Africa: The impacts on and implications for cities in East Africa, with…
Mold can be a health hazard in any home or building that has been recently flooded. Mold growth can begin just 48 hours after the materials in the home become…
Rainbow International® offers tips on what to do before, during and after a flood disaster. Flooding can happen anywhere and can be caused by heavy rains, severe storms, poor drainage,…
From 2000 to 2013, floods resulted in EUR 5.5 billion in annual losses in Europe, and this figure is set to increase fivefold by 2050 according to a study published…
How society should respond to climate change may be a global-scale debate, but University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers know that preparing for climate change’s impact on weather is a profoundly local…
WASHINGTON (October 8, 2014) — Flooding during high tides—something that rarely occurred in the past—is now common in some places and is projected to grow to the point that sections…
