Flood risk, warning and protection
A US-European oceanography satellite mission to monitor global sea level rise successful launched on 17 January 2016 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Jason-3 is an international mission led…
If ever a city was built to be resilient to heavy rains, it is Los Angeles. And yet, El Niño is about to test just how resilient the city is…
Centuries of alteration to how our river catchments (or drainage basins) function has undoubtedly exacerbated the risk of downstream flooding in every river area in Britain, report Neil Entwistle, University…
BARCELONA, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The world’s preparations to deal with disasters are not yet keeping pace with the growing threats to people and societies, said the former…
Scientists have found evidence suggesting that melting icecap water from the interior of Greenland is adding to sea level rise faster than previously realised. Report by Tim Radford for Climate…
BAGROT VALLEY, Pakistan, Dec 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nestled at the foot of five snow-capped mountain peaks in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan province, the villages of the Bagrot valley face…
POLONNARUWA, Sri Lanka, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rice farmer Weerasinghearchchilage Darmarathana is used to periodic flooding in his low-lying village of Galella in central Sri Lanka. The 60-year-old…
COP21: “It is rare in any lifetime to have a chance to change the world”, declared France’s President François Hollande as the UN climate talks finally closed. Paul Brown reports…
Yet again, distressing images of flood damage and destruction in Cumbria, northern England are prompting calls for further investment in UK flood defences and fearful talk of climate change. There…
As heavy rain continues to contribute to the devastating flooding in Cumbria, there have once again been calls – notably from the environmentalist George Monbiot – for the reforestation of…
Storm Desmond, an active European windstorm, brought strong winds and heavy rain to Ireland and the UK over the past weekend, causing severe flooding, disruption and three reported fatalities. The…
What should we actually expect from flood defence measures in this kind of situation? And why do they sometimes fail? Ross Woods, of University of Bristol writes for The Conversation.…
Climate change is not the only guilty party for the recent floods in Chennai. The scale of the disaster was magnified by a rampant disregard for town planning, and the…
Deforestation was blamed by many for worsening the deadly floods that struck in Malawi in January to February 2015. Under the AFR100 scheme, 10 African countries, including Malawi, aim to…
BOGOTA, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As world leaders gather in Paris to seek a deal on tackling climate change, millions of people around the world are suffering the…
Reporting by Megan Rowling PARIS, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Leaders from a group of 43 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called on the first…
