News tagged with flood events

Climate change to bring more floods: World Bank

Climate change will bring more floods and extreme weather to Southeast Asia, a World Bank official said Thursday on a visit to the region, where hundreds have died in severe inundation.

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Record snowfalls causing high waters in Great Plains

Summers on the Great Plains are usually characterized by a lack of water. But flooding in several states has reversed that trend -- and it might not be the last of the high waters for 2011, according to a Kansas State University ...

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created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Climate change hits home

Direct experience of extreme weather events increases concern about climate change and willingness to engage in energy-saving behaviour, according to a new research paper published in the first edition of the journal Nature Cl ...

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created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Increased flooding driven by climate change: study

Global warming driven by human activity boosted the intensity of rain, snow and consequent flooding in the northern hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century, research released Wednesday has shown.

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (14) | comments 30

Multiple factors contribute to flooding

Extreme events, such as floods or droughts, are caused by multiple factors - and must therefore be studied from many different perspectives. This is what international experts on water and climate research ...

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created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists prepare for large-scale glacial floods (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surging floods as powerful as the Amazon could hit parts of Europe within decades, according to new research.

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Sequence matters in droughts and floods

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.

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Floods to become commonplace by 2080

Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (16) | comments 11