Heavy rain from consecutive storms, most recently Storm Henk, has left wide areas of the United Kingdom under water once again. Dozens of people have been rescued from vehicles trapped…
Storms and heavy rain brought flash flooding to parts of England and Wales, United Kingdom, on 09 May 2023. Homes and roads were flooded in Somerset and Devon in the…
In the United Kingdom, intense downpours exceeding 20mm of rain per hour could be four times more frequent by the year 2080 compared with the 1980s, writes Elizabeth Kendon, University…
The government in the UK has declared a major incident over flood risk in the southwestern county of Somerset, England. England’s Environment Agency (EA) in partnership with local authorities has…
New research by Forest Research estimates Great Britain’s trees contribute over £400m annually in benefits in the fight against floods. Trees and woodlands have long been known to play a…
Hundreds of homes have been flooded in England and Wales after heavy rainfall from Storm Franklin caused rivers to rise from 20 February 2022. Authorities say flood defences have protected…
The Met Office says the UK is getting warmer and sunnier but also wetter as a result of climate change. 2020 was third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest on…
A new study has revealed that coastal wetlands such as salt marshes provide better flood protection than previously thought and can lower storm water levels by as much as 2…
Record-breaking rainfall like that seen on 3 October 2020 could be 10 times more likely by 2100, according to a recent study by the UK’s Met Office. The study by…
Storm Christoph brought heavy rain to parts of the UK from 19 January, 2021, increasing river levels in parts of North Wales and the North West of England. The UK’s…
Heavy rainfall swept across parts of the United Kingdom over the weekend 18 to 20 December 2020, causing flash flooding in parts of Wales and South West England. Whitebarrow in…
LONDON, Nov 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As climate change brings more intense storms and rising seas, Britain faces rapidly growing and shifting flood threats – something few of those…
Storm Francis brought strong winds, rough seas and heavy rainfall to parts of UK and Ireland from 24 August 2020. In Ireland, the worst of the flooding was in reported…
PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organisation providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, has disclosed its initial loss estimate for the floods in the United Kingdom in February 2020. The February 2020 Floods…
The intense rainfall from storms this winter has caused severe flooding in numerous cities across the UK. The storms have left at least eight people dead, and economic losses have…
February 2020 has brought more than its fair share of bad weather to the north of England, the Midlands and Wales. Shrewsbury, Bewdley and Telford swam in the Severn, while…
