Interactive hydrology makes a splash with students

As climate change increases the risk of flooding worldwide, understanding how floods form has never been more important.
Frontiers

Flood Intrusion into Buildings: Experimental and Numerical Advances in Hydrodynamic Modelling, Damage Assessment, and Urban Flood Risk Management

Urban flooding is one of the most frequent and economically damaging natural hazards worldwide. With rapid urbanisation, growing exposure of assets in ...
The New York Times

Reckoning With a New Era of Deadly Floods

The floods and landslides that have killed more than 1,350 people in recent weeks are a grim reminder of the risks of a warming planet. By David Gelles Our warming world has many ways of inflicting ...
Science Daily

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater threat than previously understood. Intensifying extreme rainfall events may ...
WWNO

Why this tribe is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it

The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal ...
The Conversation

New research shows how forests can prevent floods of all sizes

As large floods occur more frequently worldwide, many wonder what led to such devastating events. Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, improper land management and forest removal increase ...