The sustainable and inclusive development of the St. Lawrence River is essential. A prolonged laissez-faire attitude will have harmful consequences on people and the environment.
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Popular belief suggests the highest tides in the St. Lawrence River are reached around the equinoxes. In truth, they arrive close to the solstices.
Extreme downpours brought deadly flooding to the Appalachian region, just a few weeks after the destructive Yellowstone River flood.
Governments have known about the flood risks in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley for more than two centuries. All have failed to protect the community.
Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. Obviously, nature is a major culprit – but other drivers are also at play.
The collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would profoundly alter the anatomy of the world’s oceans and climate. New research explores the consequences.
Millions of people around the world live on river deltas and are vulnerable when those rivers shift direction. A new study shows why and where these events, called avulsions, happen.
Would you trust a weather forecast made by a machine that had learned how weather systems behaved by reviewing thousands of past weather maps?
Some Niger Delta residents are less concerned about oil-induced hazards and risks, or floods and erosion. They are more worried about a lack of sanitation amenities.
Reducing greenhouse gases is expensive, but it’s a great investment compared to the damage we can expect to the Canadian economy if the climate warms 5 C by 2100.
Sloping ground, water and clay combined to leave devastation in its wake in Durban.
Could South Africa’s flooding in 2022 have been foreseen? It has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.
Solutions already exist. What’s holding humanity back is the will to get past the status quo and embrace innovation.
A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.
Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.
Flooding is arguably even more problematic in informal settlements because of the lack of planning.
Emission of greenhouse gases is on the rise, an indication that the worst lies ahead.
Flood clusters are not unknown - but what’s new about the floods hitting Lismore is the unprecented height.
This score is a massive four points higher than the year prior. But as La Niña subsides, we’ll quickly feel the long-term warming trend again, with bushfires picking back up next season.
Flood threatened settlements must get everyone involved in an effort to become truly resilient cities.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Associate professor, Rhodes University
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Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading
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Professor Emeritus of Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State University
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Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of River Science and Climate Resilience, University of Salford
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Honorary Research Fellow in Hydromorphology, University of Salford
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Lecturer in Human Geography and Urban Development, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Water and Planning, University of Sheffield
