Flood risk, warning and protection
Scientists say coasts and communities in the Pacific region face more extreme weather hazards as climate change magnifies the devastating El Niño effect. By Tim Radford for Climate News Network…
Scientists pinpoint when global warming emerged – and predict increasingly greater climate extremes in hot, cold and wet weather trends. By Tim Radford for Climate News Network LONDON, 26 September,…
The UN and China have teamed up to share satellite data and space-based information for disaster risk reduction. The data will aid with the preparedness, mitigation and early warning actions…
The Environment Agency in the UK is set to test flood responses in an exercise planned for Thursday 17 September in Guildford, Surrey, south east England. The EA say that…
Yesterday marked the official opening of the Thornton Composite Reservoir, a new 7.9 billion gallon capacity reservoir connected to Chicago’s “Deep Tunnel” network that will offer flood protection for over…
A new project using satellite imagery to help countries in South-East Asia better predict and cope with floods and other natural disasters and increase resilience to the negative effects of…
Yesterday, New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio, announced a new City capital commitment of $100 million to help protect Lower Manhattan from flooding. The announcement comes as the country marks…
The new, £26 million ($40 million USD) Morpeth flood scheme in the north-east of England, was officially opened in Monday, 24 August, 2015. It will protect residents by storing millions…
Researchers from UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have developed a visualisation tool to predict the economic damage caused by coastal flooding around estuaries. The method…
In the wake of recent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan, as well as the recent announcement by IOM that unseasonal snowmelt has resulted in over…
A new study by scientists from the Joint Research Centre – the European Commission’s in-house science service – looks at how a range of new, computerised global flood risk models…
A team of scientists from Newcastle University have launched a project aiming to build accurate models of flash flood events in the UK. The “Flood Action Team” will collect as…
The European Union (EU) has teamed up with African governments to fund local climate research centres and help the continent prepare for natural disasters, reports Inga Vesper for SciDevNet. Funding…
Research by Russian and German scientists has shown that warmer sea surface temperatures can lead to an increase in precipitation intensity – in some cases of over 300% – for…
Disaster risk reduction training, risk mapping, education and awareness campaigns and small infrastructure works such as building flood drainage channels, have helped thousands of people in the Comayagua department of Honduras…
In a statement made earlier this month, Pakistan Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, expressed serious concern over the flood threat posed by Pakistan’s melting glaciers. The minister…
