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FAU Engineering Study Employs Deep Learning to Explain Extreme Events
At the core of uncovering extreme events such as floods is the physics of fluids - specifically turbulent flows.
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How Floods Kill, Long After the Water Has Gone - Global Decade-Long Study
Scientists in Australia have found that people impacted by a flooding event are at significantly increased risk of dying - including heart and lung problems - in a crucial window between three and six...
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Climate change brings earlier arrival of intense hurricanes
Intense tropical cyclones are one of the most devastating natural disasters in the world due to torrential rains, flooding, destructive winds, and coastal storm surges.
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Hurricanes, floods, heat waves and other disasters are striking the United States with increased severity and frequency, and since 2000 the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act has required states and local...
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Indirect pressures on many areas could outweigh direct inundation
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Novel framework improves resilience to extreme weather
To reduce the human, economic and related risks of blackouts and other types of infrastructure failures, a team associated with the Emerging Energy Markets Analysis initiative, based at Idaho National...
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Ushering in the era of light-powered 'multi-level memories'
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that has developed a new zero-dimensional and two-dimensional (2D-0D) semiconductor artificial junction material and observed the effect...
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Firsthand fieldwork: Getting mangroves into coastal models for better climate...
To better understand important dynamics at play in flood-prone coastal areas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists working on simulations of Earth's carbon and nutrient cycles paid a visit to...
View ArticleNew Model Adds Human Reactions to Flood Risk Assessment
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a land change model that simulates interactions between urban growth, increased flooding and how humans adapt in response. The new model...
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Here's How to Make Flood-Prone Areas in New Jersey More Resilient to Climate...
For years, Rutgers ecologist Brooke Maslo has studied how to redesign flood-prone landscapes so they can best protect the communities they border from the ravages of swollen brooks and rivers and...
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Flood Recover Research Poised to Help Residents in Flood-Prone Areas of...
Dr. Jamie Shinn is overseeing the development of an online resource - the West Virginia Flood Resilience Framework - poised to help residents in flood-prone areas of central Appalachia become better...
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Record heat in 2023 worsened global droughts, floods and wildfires
Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, new research from The Australian National University...
View ArticleNew tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate
Coastal cities and communities will face more frequent major hurricanes with climate change in the coming years. To help prepare coastal cities against future storms, MIT scientists have developed a...
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Expert says West Coast flooding, mudslides remain threat from multiple large...
As California and the west coast stare down yet another major winter storm, the threat of devastating flooding and mudslides is even more urgent. Drew Ellis, a climate science and meteorology expert at...
View ArticleMoffitt Study Highlights Urgent Need to Address Impact of Extreme Weather...
In a mini-review published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal from the American Association for Cancer Research, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers shed light on the...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Events Tied to Increased Mortality and Emergency Department...
Mass General Brigham study reveals that ED visits and death are heightened weeks after major climate-driven extreme weather events - highlighting the long-lasting impacts these events may have on...
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Cracking the code of flash floods: new insights from China's mountainous regions
Recently, researchers have made breakthroughs in flash flood forecasting by studying how different rainfall patterns affect flash floods in China's mountainous regions.
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A Smarter City Skyline for Flood Safety
With climate change and rising urbanization, the likelihood and severity of urban flooding are increasing. But not all city blocks are created equal. In Physics of Fluids, an AIP Publishing journal,...
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Florida Wildlife Corridor Eases Worst Impacts of Climate Change
Florida is projected to lose 3.5 million acres of land to development by 2070. A new study highlights how Florida can buffer itself against both climate change and population pressures by conserving...
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