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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
California will zigzag between droughts and floods which will become more intense and more frequent in the coming decades unless global emissions of ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Houston is just seven months removed from the worst flooding disaster in U.S. history. With this year’s hurricane season just a few weeks away, it’s worth ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
We can all learn a lot about flood prevention from the Netherlands.
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A new study has revealed for the first time the last 500-year flood history of the Mississippi River. It shows a dramatic rise in the size and frequency of ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Was wir aus den Hurrikans in den USA lernen können Unwetter und Hochwasserkatastrophen mit schweren Schäden, Verwüstungen und Opfern nehmen weltweit zu. Die ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A groundbreaking new study, led by the University of Bristol, has found that 41 million Americans are at risk from flooding rivers, which is more than three ...
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Anchored in flood-prone areas in every American state are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of federal floodplain ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Europe is expected to see a considerable increase in flood risk in coming years, even under an optimistic climate change scenario of 1.5°C warming compared to ...
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The JBA Trust's wave tank shows the impact of different types of coastal defences on the rate of overtopping and resulting coastal flooding. This recurve wall ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Storm surges and tidal cycles caused record sea levels along the coast of the Netherlands last year, a Dutch marine institute has found. "The level has been ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Scientists have now calculated the required increase in flood protection until the 2040s worldwide, breaking it down to single regions and cities. Rainfall ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
With scientists' predictions starting to come true, Miami Beach residents must decide how to respond to the water that's invading their home. By Eileen ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
In Kampong Thom province a team from the Czech NGO People in Need (PIN) is flying small Styrofoam drones with the aim of reducing preventable deaths from ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Researchers from the University of Dundee are combining Twitter, citizen science and cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to develop an ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Scientists and engineers have teamed up across the Atlantic to "redraw" the flood map of the US. Their work reveals 40 million Americans are at risk of having ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
What is sunny day flooding and how it happens? By Kristen French A flood on a sunny day. Photo: debs-eye via Flickr CCIn recent years, near-biblical floods ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Flooding rivers can wreak havoc on homes and roads but are necessary for healthy ecosystems, research at Oregon State University suggests. The study shows ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
EU Floods Directive incorporated in the Law on Water of Republika Srpska. During 2017, the Law on Water of Republika Srpska is aligned with the EU Floods ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Planting trees can reduce flood risk, but a high intensity forest land use, such as grazing, can counteract the positive effect of the trees, a recently ...
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by APFM WMO-GWP, The Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM)
Crowdsourcing is broadly defined as the process of obtaining information, ideas and services from a large group of people, and has become closely linked to ...
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