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October 6, 2026

As the planet warms, cities like Bangkok could be increasingly inundated by deadly floods

Kimberley Reid, The University of Melbourne

Thai authorities have declared a city-wide disaster zone following the deaths of at least 31 people.

January 10, 2023

Jonathan Paul, Royal Holloway, University of London

The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.

June 24, 2022

Sally Thompson, The University of Western Australia; Anneliese Sytsma, Colorado School of Mines; Dana Ariel Lapides, Simon Fraser University, and Mary H. Nichols

A warmer atmosphere can hold more water – and that makes floods harder to predict. To help, we improved one common tool used to predict floods.

Jonathan Paul
Associate Professor in Earth Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
Anneliese Sytsma
Postdoctoral fellow, Colorado School of Mines
Sally Thompson
Associate professor, The University of Western Australia
Mary H. Nichols
Research scientist, USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center
Dana Ariel Lapides
Research Hydrologist, USDA-ARS, University of California, Berkeley
Kimberley Reid
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne