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Earthquake! http://www.physorg.com/news180081593.html Technology Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:40:22 EST news180081593 (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River. http://www.physorg.com/news179777121.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:06:00 EST news179777121 The Mediterranean Sea was mostly filled in less than two years in a dramatic flood around 5.33 million years ago in which water poured in from the Atlantic, according to a study published Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179598629.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:00:02 EST news179598629 On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding. http://www.physorg.com/news177946209.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:02 EST news177946209 Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years. The research suggests that human alteration to the landscape, the construction of villages with ponds, and the adoption of irrigated agriculture are responsible for the current pattern of arsenic concentration underground. http://www.physorg.com/news177515521.html Space & Earth Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:52:45 EST news177515521 Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate "Ida the coastal low pressure area" is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast. http://www.physorg.com/news177359826.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:00:03 EST news177359826 (PhysOrg.com) -- Surging floods as powerful as the Amazon could hit parts of Europe within decades, according to new research. http://www.physorg.com/news176578177.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:01 EST news176578177 A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. http://www.physorg.com/news176030951.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:40:06 EST news176030951 (PhysOrg.com) -- Nations, communities and families in Africa need to safeguard their homes and livelihoods against the unpredictable effects of climate change, according to a discussion paper written by Imperial College London's Professor Sir Gordon Conway, published today (28 October). http://www.physorg.com/news175963280.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:03 EST news175963280 Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174633012.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:20:02 EST news174633012 A Taiwanese scientist has said her research team has found the gene that allows rice to grow under water and believes the breakthrough could help develop other flood-resistant crops. http://www.physorg.com/news174481177.html Biology Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:00:18 EST news174481177 How to plan for sea level rise, a still-abstract concept for many Californians, drew serious consideration from engineers, designers and urban planners from Holland and the U.S. at a symposium held on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news172861583.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:59 EST news172861583 (AP) -- By investing in water-saving technology, California's drought-burdened farmers could save enough water annually to fill four times over a reservoir that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports building, according to a report released this week. http://www.physorg.com/news167638434.html Space & Earth Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:30:01 EST news167638434 Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation. http://www.physorg.com/news166115137.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:06:09 EST news166115137 A drought in Tibet has intensified into the region's worst in three decades, leaving thousands of hectares parched and killing more than 13,000 head of cattle, China's state media said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news164735814.html Space & Earth Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:30:01 EST news164735814 Levees and floodwalls surrounding New Orleans -- no matter how large or sturdy -- cannot provide absolute protection against overtopping or failure in extreme events, says a new report by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. The voluntary relocation of people and neighborhoods from areas that are vulnerable to flooding should be considered as a viable public policy option, the report says. If relocation is not feasible, an alternative would be to elevate the first floor of buildings to at least the 100-year flood level. http://www.physorg.com/news159790965.html Space & Earth Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:41:40 EST news159790965 China will build at least 20 more reservoirs or hydroelectric projects in the Yangtze river system by 2020, the government said Tuesday, despite growing concerns over dam construction there. http://www.physorg.com/news159520508.html Space & Earth Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:15:39 EST news159520508 (AP) -- The Red River of the North along the Minnesota-North Dakota border faces the nation's greatest threat of spring flooding, the government said in it's weather outlook Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news156682165.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:50:01 EST news156682165 Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? A geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and two Romanian colleagues report in the January issue of Quaternary Science Reviews that, if the flood occurred at all, it was much smaller than previously proposed by other researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news151930390.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:53:48 EST news151930390 When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in The American Naturalist. http://www.physorg.com/news150642444.html Biology Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:07:24 EST news150642444 Satellites that were designed to measure sea level over the world's oceans can serve a valuable purpose over land, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news148741017.html Space & Earth Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:56:57 EST news148741017 Extreme flood events in floodplain grasslands affect carabid beetles and molluscs more than plants. This is the finding of a study by biologists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), TU Berlin, the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), ÖKON Kallmünz and the ILN Bühl, following several years of observations before and after the Elbe floods of August 2002. http://www.physorg.com/news141471703.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:41:43 EST news141471703 With the first wave of clean-up efforts behind them, residents of communities affected by this year's Midwest floods may find hope in a University of Illinois study on the economic impact of the 1993 flood that devastated much of the same region. http://www.physorg.com/news136123077.html Other Sciences Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:57:57 EST news136123077