News tagged with flood
Levees cannot fully eliminate risk of flooding to New Orleans
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2009 |
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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 ...
China says planning more dams on troubled Yangtze
Apr 21, 2009 |
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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.
Melting snow threatens spring flooding in north
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(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.
Danube delta holds answers to 'Noah's flood' debate (Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2009 |
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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) ...
Sequence matters in droughts and floods
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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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.
Researchers use satellites to measure inland floods
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2008 |
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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.
Vegetation hardly affected by extreme flood events
Sep 24, 2008 |
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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), ...
Region hit hard by 1993 floods showed economic resiliency, study indicates
Jul 24, 2008 |
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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 ...
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