Flood Risk
In the United Kingdom, intense downpours exceeding 20mm of rain per hour could be four times more frequent by the year 2080 compared with the 1980s, writes Elizabeth Kendon, University…
A new study by an international team of scientists reveals that 15 million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with around half of…
A team of scientists from Pakistan, the USA, Switzerland and Singapore has shown that the cause of severe flooding such as those in Pakistan in 2022 is the intensification of…
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with its rapid urbanization and desert landscape, is highly vulnerable to flooding. For this reason, flood managers have built an extensive system of drainage ditches and…
The devastating floods sweeping through the Kimberley region of Western Australia have caused unimaginable destruction, leaving remote Indigenous communities stranded in its aftermath. Why were we not prepared, ask Toni…
England may be set to flood at the end of winter 2023. La Niña conditions, global weather patterns, climate change, lack of flood management measures, housing on floodplains and dated…
Atmospheric rivers over California’s wildfire burn scars raise fears of deadly mudslides – this is what cascading climate disasters look like, writes Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine for The Conversation.…
According to a new study, 90% of the airports along the coastline of California, USA, will face more frequent flooding in the coming decades due to the impacts of climate…
Deforestation is causing more storms in West Africa according to Christopher Taylor, Meteorologist, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and Douglas Parker, Professor of Meteorology, University of Leeds. We know…
The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900…
What are the causes, patterns and effects of disastrous river flood? An international group of researchers led by GFZ hydrologist Bruno Merz has investigated this question in a review article…
In a world of climate change, the flood risk will be more intense and more frequent, presenting higher danger to ever more people in a greater number of countries. In…
Water-related hazards dominate the list of disasters in terms of both the human and economic toll over the past 50 years, according to a comprehensive analysis by the World Meteorological…
BlackBerry Limited has announced a first-of-its-kind flood risk and clean water monitoring solution. Based on BlackBerry® AtHoc®, a critical event management platform, the innovative technology provides autonomous year-round monitoring and…
A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and…
Recorded water levels in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) saw significant increases during the last seven days as a result of heavy rainfall and sudden water releases from dams,…
