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How Can Technology from Video Games Bring Flood Risks to Life? (Video)

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How Can Technology from Video Games Bring Flood Risks to Life? (Video)

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Stantec’s 3D flood mapping technology provides a visual representation of potential flood impacts on a commercial neighborhood in Clive, Iowa If a picture is ...

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Scientists Develop Flood Prediction Model

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Scientists Develop Flood Prediction Model

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The duration of floods can be determined by river flow, precipitation, and atmospheric blocking. Now an international team of researchers led by Nasser Najibi ...

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Earth’s Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought

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Earth’s Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought

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NASA satellites are a prominent tool for accounting for water, as it constantly cycles from water vapor to rain and snow falling onto soils, and across and ...

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This Landscape Architect Transforms Sinking Cites into Landscapes that Fight Floods (Video)

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This Landscape Architect Transforms Sinking Cites into Landscapes that Fight Floods (Video)

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From London to Tokyo, climate change is causing cities to sink -- and our modern concrete infrastructure is making us even more vulnerable to severe flooding, ...

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Hearing to Focus on Preventing More Missouri River Flooding

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Hearing to Focus on Preventing More Missouri River Flooding

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This spring's massive flooding along the Missouri River unearthed bitter criticism of the federal agency that manages the river while devastating communities ...

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EPA Assessing Superfund Sites in Midwest Flood Zone

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EPA Assessing Superfund Sites in Midwest Flood Zone

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is assessing Superfund sites located in the Midwest flood zone, as weather and water levels allow. No releases ...

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Internet of Things Technology is Now Being Used to Predict Floods (Video)

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Internet of Things Technology is Now Being Used to Predict Floods (Video)

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Floods are the most destructive weather event known to man. They cost billions each year in damages, countless hours in repair and disrupted lives and ...

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Sharing the Lessons Learned During the 2013 Colorado Flood

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Sharing the Lessons Learned During the 2013 Colorado Flood

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This insightful article by Colorado State University's  Ph.D. Nicole Archambeau looks back at the events from 2013 when a major water crisis hit Northern ...

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MSU Research Highlights Potential Environmental Consequences in the Lower Mekong River

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MSU Research Highlights Potential Environmental Consequences in the Lower Mekong River

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Hundreds of dams are being proposed for Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia. The negative social and environmental consequences – affecting everything from ...

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The Shape of Floods to Come: JRC Study on Europe Water Scarcity

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The Shape of Floods to Come: JRC Study on Europe Water Scarcity

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Flooding and water scarcity in Europe will increase in the coming decades, but to a much lesser extent if the objectives of the Paris Agreement on climate ...

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Planning Application Submitted for Further £112.1m of Leeds Flood Defences

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Planning Application Submitted for Further £112.1m of Leeds Flood Defences

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Plans for the next phase of the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme to reduce flood risk along the River Aire have now been submitted. Environment Agency and ...

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New Sea-Level Rise and Flood Alert Network Launches with City of Imperial Beach

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New Sea-Level Rise and Flood Alert Network Launches with City of Imperial Beach

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Gift from the David C. Copley Foundation funds Scripps Institution of Oceanography pilot observation system to support vulnerable coastal communities with ...

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