Flood risk, warning and protection
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…
Floods and drought are often two sides of the same coin. In certain places, they damage soil, water systems and ecosystems in repeating cycles that exacerbate each other’s impact. South…
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…
Forecast-based Financing (FbF) has enabled the Peru Red Cross to act swiftly to assist 2,000 families affected by the recent flooding. Over the last few days, floods have affected northern…
Over the last 30 years, floods have killed more than 500,000 people globally, and displaced about 650m more. In a recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Performance, we…
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…
A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany have developed a method to quantify monetary losses from coastal flooding caused by sea-level rise.…
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.…
Geological data reveals that humans have contributed to rising sea levels since the Bronze Age, but fossil fuel emissions have led to the current record-breaking increases, reports Tim Radford for…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement of 18 February, 2016, that the powerful 2015-2016 El Niño has now passed its peak. El Niño reached its peak ocean…
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…
NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training (ARSET) Program has announced a series of online training sessions on using NASA Remote Sensing for Flood Monitoring and Management. There will be four, 1…
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…
A new Community-Based Flood Early Warning system will allow communities in Nepal and India to access almost real-time information about water levels upstream, reports Giovanni Ortolani for SciDev.Net. Communities in…
