This past year, 2024, is on track to be the warmest year, joining 2023 as the two hottest years on record. With the exceptional heat, weather and climate extremes were common across the world. In particular, 2024 has seen a remarkable run of extreme precipitation events and resulting impacts...
—Explosive 'bomb cyclone' descending on UK and Ireland with up to 100 mph winds —What is DANA, the strange weather phenomenon that has caused deadly flooding in Spain? The flooding caused counties in several of the affected states to declare a state of emergency over the...
This chapter offers a diverse perspective on seasonal floods and provides an understanding of how communities and institutions respond, learn and recover from these disasters. In the case of recurring floods, learning and experience from previous floods
Then tell me how being Net Zero is going to influence temperature climate and weather when in the UK we are told hedgerows will need to be 40% larger for the UK to be Net Zero. and the UK’s net emissions are a miniscule 0.5% which means hedgerows in China will need to be 12...
“David Cameron must urgently fix the gaping £500m hole in UK defences too, if we’re to hold back the increase in flooding the experts anticipate. It’s not enough for the prime minister to recognise the serious threat climate change poses – he must take bold action.” ...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-60686223Brisbane is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Make that one of the best places to live in the world.It's not under sea level. It's not on a flood plane either. Brisbane is actially a very Hilly city with a lot of...
In 1971 the Communist party member Major Hashem Al-Atta led a coup against Numeri. He declared himself, Babikir Al-Nour, and Farouk Osman HamdAllah (the latter two were in the UK) in charge of the new government. Mohammed Werdi changed the wording of his song, just like the Isaias cult...
With 70% of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is highly exposed to riverine and coastal flooding. This paper conducts a “stress-test” and examines the exposure of the population and poor people in particular to current and future flooding in Vietnam and ...
The influence of the annual spring floods on small mammal communities was studied in the Nemunas River Delta, SW Lithuania. The aim of the investigation was to compare the diversity of small mammals inhabiting spring-flooded meadows, meadows not subjecte