The record rainfall and persistent storms of winter 2013-14 caused serious flooding throughout the southwest of England, with breached defences, loss and damage to agricultural land, homes and businesses…
Insuring the most at-risk homes should become easier after April, but the latest deluge makes the new scheme look fragile.
Cumbria 2015 shows how we have failed to learn from two other ‘one in 100-year events’ in the past 15 years.
Ministers should be applauded for recognising that there’s simply no way we could tell the thousands of key workers and low income families, desperate for a decent home, that we can’t build any more new…
A new database of UK coastal flooding will help prevent future disasters.
The climate science behind 2026’s super El Niño.
The flooding of the Thames and Severn rivers over the past week has brought the misery of being flooded to many more people beyond the sodden Somerset Levels. Such a prolonged period of rainfall – the…
Japan took a fresh approach to ensuring their society was more resilient to the frequent earthquakes they experience. We could learn from its experience.
La Niña means we are forecast a wet winter – and people are struggling and ill-prepared.
We accept the risks of flooding because the costs of making our towns and cities flood-proof are too high.
