Monitoring Underground Water In Real-Time to Improve Early Flood Warnings
One of the most crucial aspects in flood prevention and management is knowing exactly when the incident will occur. In the past, predictive data has been good, but not good…
Flood Protection
Flood risk, warning and protection
Climate Change Behind Floods in South of England, 2013-2014
Floods which battered Southern parts of England in 2013 and 2014 are likely to have been caused by human-induced climate change. Oxford University recently charged a team of scientist from…
Warmer Seas Speed Up Antarctic Ice Melt and Consequent Rise in Sea Levels
New scientific studies provide a further warning of the increasing vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers to faster melting as temperatures rise in the Southern Ocean, reports Tim Radford for Climate News…
Google Public Alerts Launch Flood Alerts for India
Earlier this week Google India announced that it will be introducing flood alerts to the range of information that’s available through Google Public Alerts in India. Using data provided by…
UK Floods – Linking Extreme Rainfall, Flooding and Climate Change
Linking extreme rainfall, flooding and climate change in the recent UK deluges – a report by Nick Reynard, the Science Area Lead for Natural Hazards at the UK’s Centre for…
Antarctic Peaks Reveal Sea Rise Threat
A pioneering fieldwork study of mountain heights and boulders in West Antarctica supports computer predictions that global sea levels could rise steeply by 2080, reports Alex Kirby for Climate News Network.…
Jakarta Urgent Flood Management Project
Jakarta, Indonesia, is one of the world’s most flood-prone cities. Locals to the area have feared and suffered the devastating effects of floods for years. Thirteen rivers cut through Jakarta,…
European Data Relay System – “SpaceDataHighway” to Revolutionise Monitoring of Natural Disasters
The European Data Relay System’s first laser terminal has reached space aboard its host satellite and is now under way to its final operating position. EDRS-A was launched on 29…
UK Floods – Seven Ways We Can Fight Back Against Flooding
There is no panacea for flood events, but there a range of things we can either do better or start doing to mitigate or adapt to them. The recent UK…
More African Countries Aided By SERVIR Flood Modelling
SERVIR, the satellite-based Earth monitoring system, has announced that it will expand it operations to several more countries and locations in Africa. The operation provides imaging and mapping data, geospatial…
Improving Extreme Weather Forecasting in USA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced plans last year to invest $5.7 million into research which will ultimately improve current methods of forecasting hazardous weather. Katharine Sullivan, of…
Virginia to Receive $120.5 million from National Disaster Resilience Competition
More than $120 million in funding from National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) will be put towards addressing the impacts of climate change, recurrent flooding and sea level rise in Virginia.…
How Can Science Play a Bigger Part in Reducing Disaster Risk?
When the Viceroy of Peru, Jose Antonio Mansa de Velasco, was given orders to rebuild Lima after an earthquake in October 1746, he hired the French mathematician, Louis Godin, to…
Tanzanians Evicted From Flood-Prone City Areas Have Nowhere To Go
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – “Free education but nowhere to sleep!” reads a poster scrawled in Swahili in Dar es Salaam’s Jangwani slum, summing up the…
UN Disaster Prevention Chief Warns Governments Underestimating Costs of Disasters
BARCELONA, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments around the world are underestimating the costs of disasters, particularly smaller ones triggered by weather and climate extremes, which is undermining the…
Pakistani Women Nurture Trees and Pride in Forest Drive
HARIPUR, Pakistan, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Robina Gul has swapped her needle for a trowel. Until recently, the villager from northern Pakistan got by making clothes for family…
