The number of people exposed to floods worldwide has surged almost a quarter over the last two decades, according to satellite-based data that shows an additional 86 million now live within flood-prone regions.
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Across the continental United States, massive, often-devastating precipitation events—the kind that climate scientists have long called "hundred-year storms"—could become three times more likely and 20% more severe by ...
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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 ...
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Jan 21, 2020
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Over the next 50 years, people living at low altitudes in developing countries, particularly those in coastal Asia, will suffer the most from extreme weather patterns, according to researchers.
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Apr 27, 2016
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The death toll from severe floods and mudslides in coastal Turkey has climbed to at least 40, the country's emergency and disaster agency said Saturday.
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Aug 14, 2021
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New research published today shows that if it were not for the impact of climate change, up to 50 percent of residences in Houston's Harris County would not have been flooded by Hurricane Harvey five years ago. The study, ...
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Aug 25, 2022
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Climate experts warn that, without urgent action, climate change will continue to cause an increase in the intensity of extreme rainfall that can lead to severe flooding.
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Jun 7, 2021
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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.
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Mar 29, 2019
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Floods, droughts, and other water-related disasters are some of the costliest natural events that occur in Canada and around the world. Even with significant global advances in science and infrastructure designed to predict ...
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Higher high tides, supercharged by rising sea levels, could flood all or parts of an estimated $34 billion worth of real estate along the nation's coasts within just 30 years, a new report concludes.
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