Flooding and floods in Europe
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has launched a new version of its catastrophe model to enhance understanding the financial impact of floods in Poland. Petra von Seydlitz,…
The Environment Agency in England has announced that the River Ouseburn has been diverted as part of a major scheme to tackle flooding in Brunton Park, Newcastle. Northumbrian Water and…
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…
Russia’s Emergencies Minister, Vladimir Puchkov, confirmed in a statement yesterday that 12,000 people, across 119 communities in 18 regions, have now been affected by the recent floods in the country.…
Major floods have been affecting central and northern areas of Russia since 12 April, 2016, mainly as a result of snow melt and ice jams. Over 2,500 homes have been…
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…
A combination of high spring tides and winds of 65 mph (120 km/h) caused coastal flooding in parts of Cornwall and Devon in south west England yesterday, Sunday 10 April,…
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday 30 March 2016 after floods in parts of Galicia, north western Spain. Sada, a municipality of around 12,000 people in…
“There isn’t one solution to flooding. We need a range of solutions,” says Councillor John Osman, chair of the Somerset Rivers Authority in the UK. The Somerset Rivers Authority has…
Parts of southern and central England endured the force of Storm Katie between Sunday 27 and Monday 28 March 2016. Strong winds, with gusts of over 100 mph / 160…
The Environment Agency has been working in Cumbria and Yorkshire to aid communities recovering from the record-breaking December 2015 floods. Cumbria Since the devastating floods of early December 2015, the…
The UK government have announced they will be allocating an extra £700 million ($995 million US) towards funding for flood defence in England and Wales. The extra budget will allow…
Extreme weather caused by global warming could lead to more violent and more frequent storms devastating beaches on exposed Atlantic coastlines in Europe, reports Tim Radford for Climate News Network.…
A JRC-led research published in Climatic Change investigated the benefits of four adaptation measures to reduce the increasing flood risk in Europe under state-of-the-art global warming projections under a high-end…
Strong winds, flash floods and torrential rain caused chaos for motorists and commuters in England yesterday, Wednesday 09 March, 2016. Parts of central England were some of the worst affected…
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…
