Coastal wetlands around the world are expected to transform as a result of a changing rainfall and temperature patterns as well as sea level rises. Wetlands are essential for protecting…
A storm system has swept across several states in southern USA from Monday 02 January, 2017, causing flooding and storm damage. The system affected parts of Texas late Sunday 01…
New research published in a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society identified evidence for human-influenced climate change for several heatwaves, record-low Arctic sea ice, Alaska’s intense…
As the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific 2016 hurricane seasons end today, NOAA scientists said that all three regions saw above-normal seasons. For the Atlantic, this was the first…
The Northeastern coast of the USA could be struck by more frequent and more powerful hurricanes in the future due to shifting weather patterns, according to new research. Hurricanes have…
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland has produced a rainfall analysis from Hurricane Matthew. It was accomplished using data from NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG). The…
Hurricane Matthew has flooded parts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina over the last 3 days after bringing torrential rain and storm surges, as well as high winds.…
Hurricane Matthew made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Les Anglais in the Sud Department of Haiti during the morning of 04 October 2016. The storm dropped significant amounts…
In the fourth article in the series “A New Approach to Storm-Water Management and Flood Reduction“, Ed Hill looks at Low Impact Development (LID) and ‘green infrastructure’ (GI) in North…
RMS, the global catastrophe risk management firm, estimates that the insured loss associated with wind and coastal flooding from Hurricane Hermine will not exceed $400 million. This figure includes property…
In the US state of Florida, researchers from the University of West Florida helped author a first-of-its-kind study that assessed the health effects of the devastating flood that struck the…
Hurricane Hermine made landfall near St Marks, on the gulf coast of Florida at 01:30 EDT on Friday 02 September. It was downgraded to a post-tropical storm on 03 September.…
With every passing year, Southeast Florida faces more pressure to adapt to climate change. The region already experiences the effects of climate change, such as flooding on sunny days during…
A recent report says that more than 6.8 million homes in the USA are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation. The report adds that the total…
New research from the University of Colorado Denver shows many communities in the USA fail to take historic preservation into account when planning for natural disasters, risking a loss of…
A new study by a team of scientists has found that tidal flooding in Miami Beach has increased by 400% in the last decade. Rain induced flood events have also…
