Flood risk, warning and protection
Coral reefs provide flood protection worth $1.8 billion every year – it’s time to protect them, writes Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz, for The Conversation. The news is…
Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?, by Billy Tusker Haworth, University of Manchester; Christine Eriksen, University of Wollongong, and Scott McKinnon, University of Wollongong…
Article by Nathalie Mezza-Garcia for The Conversation. By end of the century, rising seas will flood more than 500 coastal cities, affecting 1.5 billion people worldwide. Some estimates predict surging…
£1.1 billion a year of flood damage is being prevented by the UK’s current network of river barriers and defences, according to landmark research published by the UK insurance industry.…
BHUBANESWAR, India, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Six weeks after India’s eastern state of Odisha was battered by the strongest storm since 2013, officials are considering how to build…
DURHAM, N.C. – A new Duke University-led study finds that the death of marsh plants due to disturbances like the heavy oiling from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill can double…
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Airbus Aerial today announced a collaboration that will help companies efficiently identify flood risks and more accurately predict weather-related flood damage. Under the collaboration, Swiss…
The UK will need to spend £1 billion a year on flood management to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, according to the national Environment Agency. The organisation’s chair,…
Massive, destructive floods such as those caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 are a stark reality in Texas, but so are prolonged ground-cracking droughts. In a perfect world, there would…
As rains become heavier, the city needs to do more to prevent disasters, engineers and planners say. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Last month, a torrent…
LONDON, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – England must prepare for global warming of up to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2°F) that threatens to put millions of households at risk of…
Cyclone Idai struck Beira, the fourth largest city in Mozambique, in mid-March with torrential rains and winds of more than 190 km per hour. It took days for the sheer…
Severe floods in Malawi have affected about a million people and claimed 56 lives. This isn’t uncommon in the country. Between 1946 and 2013, floods accounted for 48% of major…
DAKAR, March 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ghana plans to replace its polluting “trotro” buses and formalise waste collection in slums as part of a new plan to help its…
Floods happen. Rivers have always inundated their floodplains and the sea has always tried to reclaim land that has been taken from it. This is certainly true in Somerset, whose…
The Environment Agency’s new tidal flood defence barrier for Ipswich has been officially opened by Floods Minister, Dr Thérèse Coffey, ensuring more than 1,600 homes and 400 businesses are better…
