Recent research finds that repeated flooding events have a cumulative effect on the structural integrity of earthen levees, suggesting that the increase in extreme weather events associated with climate change could pose ...
Environment
Jan 21, 2020
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At least 15 natural disasters linked to climate change this year caused damage of over $1 billion and seven of them cost at least $10 billion, British charity Christian Aid said Friday.
Environment
Dec 27, 2019
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Scientists at Utrecht University have discovered how some plants can quickly detect that they are under water when flooded, and initiate processes that prevents them from drowning. Floods cause widespread yield losses annually ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2019
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The impact of a changing climate on the severity of flooding has been demonstrated in the largest-scale study of its kind—with parts of northern Britain seeing the largest increase in Europe.
Environment
Aug 28, 2019
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Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense "bomb cyclone," has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued by flood events in recent decades.
Environment
Mar 29, 2019
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As the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the globe, permafrost, land ice and sea ice are disappearing at unprecedented rates. And these changes not only affect the infrastructure, economies and cultures of the Arctic, ...
Environment
Mar 8, 2019
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A recently developed early warning system can forecast floods on coral-lined coasts worldwide and could help save residents of low-lying island nations from unprecedented disaster, according to researchers.
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2018
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A global study has found a paradox: our water supplies are shrinking at the same time as climate change is generating more intense rain. And the culprit is the drying of soils, say researchers, pointing to a world where drought-like ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2018
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A devastating wall of water gushed down the Bhotekoshi/Sunkoshi River in Nepal on July 5, 2016. It came from a lake that had been dammed by a glacial moraine, but the dam broke and discharged more than 100,000 tons of water ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2018
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A research collaboration between Victoria University of Wellington and NIWA is working towards a better method for adapting to coastal flooding as sea levels continue to rise due to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2018
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