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Flooding
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As The Climate Changes, Architects And Engineers Need To Design Buildings Differently
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United…
Damage Estimates For Hurricanes Like Dorian Don’t Capture The Full Cost Of Climate Change-Fueled Disasters
Scientists say climate change is causing powerful hurricanes like Dorian to increasingly stall over coastal areas, which leads…
More Rain, More Development Spell Disaster For Some U.S. Cities
There’s more rain falling on some parts of the U.S. than there used to be, and many towns…
The Best Countries To Escape The Worst Effects Of Climate Change
Using research from the University of Notre Dame, Eco Experts created a map ranking the countries that would…
How Green Roofs Can Protect Our City From Flooding
Spring and summer 2017 have been among the wettest on record in eastern North America. And the world…
Discover 7 Incredible Weather Events & Its Causes
The weather might seem like it creates weeks of dreary, grey drizzle. But it can also put on…
Why We Must Learn From Sunken Cities Or Suffer Their Fate
The British Museum’s Sunken Cities exhibition is a reminder of our future. If we accept that climate change…
A Top-down Approach To Flood Prevention
Gravity offers a simple and cheap way to attenuate stormwater flows – by storing water temporarily on a…
Make Your Cities Flood-Resilient With These Ideas
A new exhibition argues that a ‘landscape first’ approach to urban development, via innovative water management, could make…
The World’s 10 Riskiest Cities
What are the world’s riskiest cities when it comes to natural disasters? A reinsurance company set out to…