The Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, a joint venture between the Netherlands, Bangladesh and the World Bank, was announced yesterday. The plan will focus on developing sustainable flood protection in Bangladesh.…
Parts of northern, central and south eastern Europe are seeing widespread flooding after a wave of severe weather. 3 people have been killed in flooding in south east Europe in…
The UK was the first country to suffer from the storm, labelled in Germany as Hurricane Xaver and in Denmark as Cyclone Bodil and in Sweden as Sven. You can…
In light of the flood warnings for North sea coastal areas of Scotland, England and Germany for 5 and 6 December 2013, we decided to take a timely look at…
Can the North Sea Floods of 1953 happen again? A storm that is likely to hit parts of Northern Europe between Thursday 5 December and Friday 6 December prompted authorities…
A few days ago we wrote about the project in the Netherlands called (in English) “Room for the River”. It’s a large project taking place in the Netherlands, Germany, France…
As a follow-up to the report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) (see our post here) regarding flooding in Europe, we decided to look at one of the biggest flood…
