Flood News

Posted May 18, 2009:

• Meeting Needs Of Frail Elderly People In A Disaster

Posted April 24, 2009:

• Levees Cannot Fully Eliminate Risk Of Flooding To New Orleans, Report Says

Posted April 22, 2009:

• Keeping An Eye On Flash Floods: The Grid And Cyclops

Posted April 2, 2009:

• Hispaniola Was A Tropical Cyclone 'Target' Five Times In 2008

Posted March 25, 2009:

• North West Tidal Barrages Could Provide 5% Of UK's Electricity

Posted March 24, 2009:

• Triceratops Was A Social Animal, Group Of Dinosaur Fossils Suggests

Posted March 23, 2009:

• Climate Change Found To Have Paradoxical Effects In Coastal Wetlands

Posted March 17, 2009:

• Mood Player Sorts Music By Moods, Blends Images To Music Rhythms

Posted March 15, 2009:

• Sea Level Rise Due To Global Warming Poses Threat To New York City

Posted March 3, 2009:

• Oregon's Upper Willamette River Basin In U.S. Faces Climate Threats

Posted February 14, 2009:

• Cupid's Arrow May Cause More Than Just Sparks To Fly This Valentine's Day

Posted January 23, 2009:

• More Accurate FEMA Flood Maps Could Help Avoid Significant Damages And Losses
• Danube Delta Holds Answers To 'Noah's Flood' Debate

Posted January 20, 2009:

• MIRI Method Reduces Water Use In Rice Field Tests

Posted January 19, 2009:

• Nile Delta Fishery Grows Dramatically Thanks To Run-Off Of Sewage, Fertilizers

Posted January 8, 2009:

• Floods To Become Commonplace By 2080
• Droughts And Floods: Extent Of Damage To Vegetation Depends On Sequence Of Events

Posted January 7, 2009:

• Catastrophic Coincidence: Second Ever Example Of Contemporaneous Meteorite Impact And Flood Volcanism Discovered

Posted December 23, 2008:

• Environmental Risk From Pools Containing Polluting Liquids Evaluated With New Environmental Risk Index

Posted December 17, 2008:

• Satellites Used To Measure Inland Floods

Posted December 16, 2008:

• Oregon's Rogue River Basin To Face Climate-Change Hurdles

Posted December 11, 2008:

• State Political Corruption Linked To Receiving U.S. FEMA Money, Study Finds

Posted December 10, 2008:

• Green Homes That Withstand Hurricanes Under Development

Posted December 2, 2008:

• Human Approach To Computer Processing

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Second Warmest October For Global Temperatures, NOAA Says
• From Genes To Farmers' Fields: New 'Waterproof' Rice Developed

Posted November 20, 2008:

• The Lightning Flash Before The Flood

Posted November 19, 2008:

• Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing

Posted November 18, 2008:

• Speeding Antarctic Glacier: Scientists Discover Another Reason For Glacial Acceleration
• Alpine Rivers Hold Important Clues For Preserving Biodiversity And Coping With Climate Change

Posted November 13, 2008:

• Dinosaur Whodunit: Solving A 77-Million-Year-Old Mystery

Posted November 6, 2008:

• Forecasting Rain: Radars For Estimating Rainfall Rates

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Satellites Helping Aid Workers In Honduras

Posted October 29, 2008:

• Researchers Analyze Behavior Of Websurfers

Posted October 23, 2008:

• Wetlands Expert: China Should Think Outside The Flooding Box With Three Gorges Dam

Posted October 19, 2008:

• NASA Launches Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission To Outer Solar System

Posted October 14, 2008:

• Brain Function: Supersensitive Receptor Engineered, Gain Better Understanding Of Dopamine System
• Did Termites Help Katrina Destroy New Orleans Floodwalls And Levees?

Posted October 8, 2008:

• Beavers: Dam Good For Songbirds

Posted October 2, 2008:

• Bays On US Gulf Coast Vulnerable To Flooding

Posted September 26, 2008:

• Flood-Alert System Eased Fears At Texas Medical Center

Posted September 24, 2008:

• Global Warming Will Have Significant Economic Impacts On Florida Coasts, Reports State
• Vegetation Hardly Affected By Extreme Flood Events: Impacts On Flora And Fauna Of The Elbe Flood Of 2002

Posted September 18, 2008:

• Myanmar After Cyclone Nargis

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Valley Networks On Mars Formed During Long Period Of Episodic Flooding

Posted September 4, 2008:

• Major Flooding Risk Could Span Decades After Chinese Earthquake

Posted September 3, 2008:

• Urbanization Reconfigures Surface Hydrology

Posted July 30, 2008:

• Timing Is Everything: How Vulnerable To Flooding Is New York City?

Posted July 28, 2008:

• Water-Stingy Agriculture Reduces Arsenic In Rice Markedly

Posted July 24, 2008:

• Region Hit Hard By 1993 Floods Showed Economic Resiliency, Study Indicates

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