Flood risk, warning and protection
Canadian buildings and infrastructure are being more and more challenged by the impacts of climate change and an increase in extreme weather events such as damaging floods and devastating high…
Europe has launched a new drive to protect its heritage sites from the risk of disasters, an issue given added urgency by a string of earthquakes that wrecked age-old buildings…
The UK government announced £15m for natural flood management initiatives in the 2016 Autumn Statement. To tell us more about what these methods are, the National Environment Research Council (NERC)…
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2017 – Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States, not always in the form of big weather disasters but…
A project has kicked-off in London that will create artificial storms to help predict worst-case scenarios for coastal flooding. Using computer models to make real storms more extreme, this National…
Last winter’s El Niño might have felt weak to residents of Southern California, but it was in fact one of the most powerful climate events of the past 145 years.…
Dredging alone will not contain flood risk, but a new study in Ireland finds that natural flood management techniques such as the ‘Slowing the Flow’ project in England and the…
For coastal residents of the east African country Mozambique, severe floods that endanger their health and lives are a frequent reality. Helping communities cope with extreme weather events is a…
Over the last few weeks, FloodList has published a series of articles on floating architecture, looking at different ways designers and architects have approached the problem of providing homes and…
Construction work on the Newhaven flood alleviation scheme started on 3 January 2017, after 2 years of development including consultation with the local community. After a competitive tendering process, the…
Hundreds of trees will be planted across the Lake District today (Friday 10 February) in the first mass tree planting event ever attempted by the National Trust in the national…
NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program is offering a free webinar on the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System this February. Up-to-date and accessible information is essential to providing an…
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is working to strengthen forecasting skills for flash floods across the world. WMO’s Flash Flood Guidance System is a major step forward in how local meteorological…
DHL is a household name in the courier and freight logistics industries, but less well-known is that the Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) group has been involved in an airport disaster…
A previous article in our series on floating architecture highlighted the work of Dutch architecture firm Architectstudio Marlies Bohmer in creating the floating community of Waterbuurt in Amsterdam. The point…
Study recommends governments support existing community-based mangrove management programmes, which allow locals to sustainably fish and harvest timber in forests, writes Matthew Ponsford for Thomson Reuters Foundation. LONDON, Feb 2…
