Satellite Flood Mapping Gets Smarter: New Index Slashes False Alarms in Cities
A new Enhanced NDWI combined with a hybrid fusion technique reduces false alarms in satellite-based urban flood detection from 38 ...
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Flood Models Understate Ambulance Delays in Poor Neighborhoods
A study of the 2016 Hurricane Matthew flood in Virginia Beach reveals that standard models underestimated ambulance delays in low-income ...
Satellite Maps Reveal Nearly Half of Nigerian City Faces High Flood Risk
A GIS and analytical hierarchy process study of Ilorin, Nigeria, has mapped flood susceptibility across the entire metropolis and found ...
Mapping Flood Danger: Simple GIS Model Predicts Where Nigerian City Will Drown
Researchers in Nigeria combined satellite data with a structured expert-weighting method to map flood susceptibility across Makurdi, finding that over ...
El Niño’s Hidden Fingerprint: Coastal Rainfall Fades While Cities Soak in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
A 40-year analysis of daily rainfall in Vietnam's northeastern Mekong Delta reveals significant coastal drying, urban wetting and a hidden ...
Kenya’s Soil Moisture Science Has a Blind Spot Where It Matters Most
The first national-scale systematic review of Kenyan soil moisture research finds that remote sensing dominates the field while the drought-prone ...
Three Forces Decide Whether Green Stormwater Infrastructure Spreads Through a City
An agent-based model of Austin, Texas, shows that green stormwater infrastructure spreads only when visibility, feasibility and social capital align ...
New Multicriteria Framework Ranks Sustainable Drainage Designs by Performance, Cost and Resilience
A new multicriteria decision-making framework compares conventional drainage, rainwater harvesting and detention basins, revealing oversizing in design standards and hidden ...
Extreme Rainfall Could Swamp China’s Huai River Basin With Soaring Population and Economic Exposure
A new study projects that extreme rainfall events in China's Huai River Basin will intensify through 2100, driving population exposure ...
African Cities Face Rising Floods and Droughts as Adaptation Lags Behind
A new study in npj Urban Sustainability warns that floods and droughts are intensifying across African cities and calls for ...
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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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