Remote Sensing Reveals Two Decades of Rising Flood Exposure Around Dongting Lake
A remote sensing study of five floods between 2000 and 2020 finds that inundation expansion, not population redistribution, drove rising ...
Tag: flood risk management
HEC-RAS and ArcGIS model a flood resilience index for urban planning
A study combining HEC-RAS flood modelling, ArcGIS spatial analysis and CRITIC and VIKOR statistics builds a Flood Resilience Index that ...
Reservoirs and Flood Detention Basins Can Share Flood Storage Equivalently, Study Shows
A new study derives an equivalent flood control storage relationship between a reservoir and a flood detention basin, applied to ...
Explainable AI Reveals Why Volcanic Jeju Island Floods When Rainfall Alone Cannot Explain It
An explainable machine learning study of Jeju Island shows that flood occurrence is governed by region-specific interactions among rainfall, groundwater, ...
Smarter Rain Simulators: New Statistical Upgrade Sharpens Extreme Precipitation Forecasts
Researchers have extended a widely used class of statistical precipitation generators with flexible distributional modelling and a unified treatment of ...
EU Policies Aligned to Restore Landscape Sponge Function, New Brief Urges
A joint policy brief from three EU-funded projects recommends five priority actions to embed catchment-scale sponge restoration across EU water, ...
AI and River Geometry Reveal Hidden Flood Hotspots in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Researchers fused morphometric basin analysis with machine learning to map flood susceptibility across four Bayelsa State catchments, revealing hidden high-risk ...
Dutch Media Trust Engineers, Not Retreat, to Save the Netherlands From Rising Seas
A ten-year analysis of Dutch online news shows that media coverage strongly legitimises engineering-based protection against sea-level rise while marginalising ...
Not All Green Infrastructure Fights Floods Equally, Landmark Basin Study Reveals
A new modeling study of China's Poyang Lake Basin shows that permeability-oriented green infrastructure outperforms storage-based designs under most flood ...
Lessons from the deadly 2021 floods for better risk management
The catastrophic floods that swept through western Germany and Belgium in July 2021 killed more than 200 people, and according ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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