The health impacts of disasters like flooding are complex and cascading, and can impact any one person or population simultaneously. The kinds of health risks any given community might experience, the severity of them, and just how vulnerable they might be can differdepending on various factors. ...
Is there some kind of historical memory and folk wisdom that ensures that a community remembers about very extreme phenomena, such as catastrophic floods, and learns to establish new settlements in safer locations? We tested a unique set of empirical data on 1293 settlements founded in the course...
Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flo
How Does Climate Impact Floods? Closing the Knowledge Gap. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 95, 253-254.Paasche, O., and E. W. N. Storen (2014), How does climate impact floods? Closing the knowledge gap, Eos Trans. AGU, 95(28), 253-254....
The highest biomass and species richness developed in pots that were never flooded. Least biomass and species richness developed in pots that were continuously flooded. Short frequent floods promoted high species richness and biomass especially of Amphibious fluctuation-tolerator species and Amphibious ...
How Floods Work Why are the waves on the U.S. West Coast larger than the waves on the East Coast? If global warming causes the polar ice caps to melt, how much will the oceans rise? What causes high tide and low tide? Why are there two tides each day? How do they measure "sea...
Floods and Fires Impact Our Gardens; Weather Extremes Prompt Garden Gnome DOT CRANE to See HowWHAT weather news. Our thoughts must be with Victoria and the fire victims.Gympie Times, The Qld
Jackson, Mississippi, resident Velma Warner says the city's most recent flooding brings up memories of two years past, when Pearl River floods forced many in the Canton Club neighborhood of Northeast Jackson to leave their homes. Though Warner and her family had time to prepare their home for...
Whether your basement floods when it rains or you live in a region that sees very little precipitation, it doesn’t hurt to educate yourself on the causes of home flooding and what you can do to prevent flood damage. With a little short-term planning, you can save yourself a lot of ...
The Bottom Line Whether or not flood insurance is a good idea for you will depend on several factors, mainly whether your property is in an area that is at high risk of flooding. However, floods can occur anywhere. You don't need to live near water for your home to be flooded, such...