Rising Seas Could Make U.S. Coastal Flooding a Daily Peril by 2100
Many coastal areas of the United States could see floods that now happen about twice a century occur almost daily by the turn of the century, as ocean levels rise…
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Brazil – Extreme Rainfall Days in Metropolitan São Paulo Have Risen Four-Fold
Study by researchers at Brazil’s National Disaster Surveillance and Early Warning Center (CEMADEN) reveals that etreme rainfall days in metropolitan São Paulo have risen four-fold in seven decades. The research…
USA – Major to Moderate Flooding Likely in 23 States for Spring 2020, Says NOAA
Major to moderate flooding is likely in 23 US states in the spring period March to May 2020, according to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. The most significant flood potential is…
USA – More Rain and Less Snow Means Increased Flood Risk in West
As the world warms and precipitation that would have generated snowpack instead creates rain, the western U.S. could see larger floods, according to new Stanford research. An analysis of over…
Atmospheric River Storms Can Drive Costly Flooding – and Climate Change Is Making Them Stronger
Ask people to name the world’s largest river, and most will probably guess that it’s the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth’s largest rivers are…
Storm-Hit Zimbabweans Endure Another Rainy Season in Risky Homes
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe, Jan 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Albert Sabawe, 25, is waiting to eat lunch, resting against the wall of his flimsy wooden home in a small village in…
Jakarta’s Flood Costs Will Increase by Up to 400% by 2050, Research Shows
Indonesia started 2020 with flood waters inundating parts of the capital Jakarta and surrounding areas, killing at least 67 people and displacing 300,000. This is something that Jakarta and other…
Study Provides a Better Estimate of Water-Level Rise in the Ganges Delta
A scientific study has provided reliable regional estimates of land subsidence and water-level rise in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta. Depending on the region of the delta, water-level rise could reach 85…
New Study Compares Floodplain Protection Today to Predicted Future Flood Losses
A new study by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the University of Bristol and flood analytics company Fathom, seeks to answer an important question related to flooding in the…
USA – Atmospheric River Storms Create $1 Billion-a-Year Flood Damage
Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a new study. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and…
How England’s Broken Planning System Has Created (Not Reduced) the Risk of Floods
Recent floods in England have been described as unprecedented or even “biblical” events, often with the misguided assumption that they were unavoidable or unpredictable. That is not the case. Over…
Three Times More People at Risk From Yearly Coastal Flooding Than Previously Thought – New Research
Before today, sea level rise and flooding were already forecast to wreak havoc for millions now and in the coming decades. Now, the story looks much worse – three times…
Rising Seas Threaten Hundreds of Native American Heritage Sites Along Florida’s Gulf Coast
Native North Americans first arrived in Florida approximately 14,550 years ago. Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in Florida’s…
Climate Change to Increase Compound Flooding in Northern Europe
Coastal areas of Northern Europe will experience an increase in “compound flooding” in coming decades as a result of climate change, say researchers. Compound flooding occurs where storm surges and…
Bahamas – Hurricane Dorian Shows Existential Threat Faced by Small Island States Says UN
The massive destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas over the last few days reveals the existential threat posed to small island states by the ongoing climate emergency, according…
Hurricane Dorian: Where It Hit, Where It’s Headed, and Why It’s So Destructive
At the time of writing, Dorian has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm and is currently tracking northward parallel to the US coast. Where Dorian decides to travel next…
