Flood risk, warning and protection
Margaret Cook, University of the Sunshine Coast, writing for The Conversation, asks: Why can floods like those in the Northern Rivers in New South Wales, Australia, come in clusters? Right now,…
Marc Pégulu, VP of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group, takes a look at how Internet of Things (IoT) solutions such as flood sensor…
Communities trying to fight sea-level rise could inadvertently make flooding worse for their neighbors, according to a new study from the Stanford Natural Capital Project. The research, published in Proceedings…
Miami is all about the water and living life outdoors. Walking paths and parks line large stretches of downtown waterfront with a stunning bay view. This downtown core is where…
A new study has revealed that coastal wetlands such as salt marshes provide better flood protection than previously thought and can lower storm water levels by as much as 2…
The oceans are rising at an accelerating rate, and millions of people are in the way. Rising tides are already affecting cities along low-lying shorelines, such as the U.S. Atlantic…
In a new analysis on managed retreat – the climate adaptation response of moving people and property out of harm’s way – researchers explore what it would take for managed…
The World Bank has approved $155 million financing to support Senegal to reduce flood risks in peri-urban areas of Dakar and improve capacity for integrated urban flood risk planning and…
Floodplains aren’t separate to a river — they’re an extension of it. It’s time to change how we connect with them, write Melissa Parsons and Martin Thoms from the University…
More than 300,000 homes in England are now better protected from the effects of climate change compared with 2015, the UK’s Environment Agency announced on 24 March 2021. Exceeding its…
Even a modest sea level rise, triggered by increasing global temperatures, would place 100 airports below mean sea level by 2100, a new study has found. Scientists from Newcastle University…
BARCELONA, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More powerful storms are battering people and economies harder, with the poor suffering the worst losses, an annual climate risk index showed, as…
Overlapping disasters struck parts of England and Wales in January as Storm Christoph battered communities which were already suffering from the effects of a prolonged period under lockdown. It was…
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As flood risks rise in the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should update flood maps, set tougher standards for floodplain construction and prepare…
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…
