The design of streets and layout of buildings have an impact on a city's resilience in the face of increasingly severe floods brought on by climate change. Researchers look at buildings and other ...

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 ...

Developed high-resolution flood-risk models that provide unprecedented detail and scale Created powerful algorithms that dramatically speed up risk assessments Provided data that supported global ...

The prevailing story in Houston is that not enough is being done to mitigate flooding. It's hard to argue with that, given the rising impacts from flooding, the city's long-standing culture of ...

The Tanzanian Urban Resilience Program is harnessing local tools and knowledge to conduct soil sampling and create a comprehensive soil map that will inform flood mitigation measures and urban ...

BENGALURU: In its audit report tabled during the ongoing winter session of the state legislature in Belagavi, the CAG revealed that the two-year project, which cost nearly Rs 2 crore, failed to ...

A neighborhood of Hinsdale, Illinois uses curb cuts that allow stormwater to easily drain into rain gardens and bioswales. With dense vegetation, absorbent soils, and underground storage capacity, ...

More than 6.3m homes in England could be at risk of flooding, according to the Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.