Flooding and floods in Europe
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)…
The Environment Agency have announced that a multi-million pound scheme to reduce the risk of flooding to 350 homes and 32 businesses in Port Clarence, Teesside in North East England…
The Serbian Interior Ministry declared an emergency situation on Monday 7 March 2016, after floods hit the municipalities of Čačak, Lucani and Arilje in central and eastern Serbia. Areas of…
Cuts to the fire service are leaving more and more communities at risk when flooding strikes, according to a recent report by the by the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) in…
Two videos have been released online showing the extent of flood damage if the Seine bursts its banks. The shocking footage shows water rising to heights of three metres, and…
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…
An official report by the Environment Agency in the UK reveals that the winter floods of 2013 to 2014 caused damage in England and Wales costing around £1.3 billion. Residential…
The low pressure Atlantic front “Golia” has affected the whole of Italy since the 27 February 2016, causing intense storms and torrential rainfall, with snow in the north and rain…
Residents motorists along coastal areas of Norfolk, eastern England, will soon benefit from newly installed digital flood warnings signs. The signs will be illuminated when tidal flood alerts and flood…
During his visit to moorlands in Derbyshire, England, on 19 February, Sir James Bevan, the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, said that revitalising natural landscapes can reduce flood risk.…
The Italian environmentalist association Legambiente, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Environment and Protection of Natural Resources, recently published a report on climate change impacts and adaptation policies in…
Enrolment is now open for the first RISC-KIT summer school on coastal resilience, which will take place in Italy later this year. The course invites students and early-career researchers to…
The European Environment Agency recently published a report on flooding in Europe, “Floodplain management: reducing flood risks and restoring healthy ecosystems”, where researchers examined data on floods dating from 1980…
One of the most crucial aspects in flood prevention and management is knowing exactly when the incident will occur. In the past, predictive data has been good, but not good…
A violent storm that swept across areas of Portugal resulted in high waves, floods, and landslides. One person drowned after he was swept away by flood water in Albergaria-a-Velha. Strong…
Flood Re, the body set up by the UK government and the insurance industry to reduce the cost of cover in flood-prone areas of the UK is set to launch…
