A study by Columbia University has found that adding protective barriers around street trees could reduce load on city sewers, increasing the effectiveness of urban Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). In…
CHENNAI, India, Jan 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Efforts to bolster Indian cities against climate change and make them greener must include citizens who are being hit hard by rising…
Ambitious plans to create a new “Northern Forest” that will stretch from Liverpool across to Hull in England have been kick-started following an announcement by the UK Prime Minister Theresa…
Investing in ‘green infrastructure’ like restoring floodplains or wetlands to bolster flood prevention not only generates more environmental and socio-economic benefits, especially in the long term, but also lowers the…
Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Seville have published a study in which they indicate that it would be necessary to have between…
Spring and summer 2017 have been among the wettest on record in eastern North America. And the world is watching Houston this week, where the remains of Hurricane Harvey have…
TEPIC, Mexico, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Expect more images of flood evacuees scrambling into rescue boats with their wet pets and possessions unless cities seize the chance to…
Asian cities are struggling to accommodate rapid urban migration, and development is encroaching on flood-prone areas. Recent flooding in Mumbai was blamed in part on unregulated development of wetlands, while…
New allocations of flood management funding will allow homes, businesses and communities around the country to benefit from increased flood protection, Floods Minister Thérèse Coffey announced today. 34 community led…
Worldwide, flood risk will continue to rise as cities grow larger and rainstorms become more intense, making conventional engineering insufficient as the sole approach to flood management. “Natural and Nature-Based…
The Environment Secretary in the UK recently announced a new £1 million natural flood management competition as part of the government’s drive to reduce flooding by using a range of…
Surging urban populations across cities in Latin America – a result of mass migration from rural to urban areas – make them vulnerable to floods. By Anastasia Moloney for Thomson…
New Orleans is working to introduce green infrastructure, which can manage stormwater better, and create jobs into the bargain, says its resilience chief, reports Megan Rowling for Thomson Reuters Foundation.…
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) recently published a report containing its findings on the barriers to the implementation of Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) in England, following…
The UK government announced £15m for natural flood management initiatives in the 2016 Autumn Statement. To tell us more about what these methods are, the National Environment Research Council (NERC)…
Dredging alone will not contain flood risk, but a new study in Ireland finds that natural flood management techniques such as the ‘Slowing the Flow’ project in England and the…
