Flooding

With a changing climate and rising sea levels putting cities at risk of flooding, it’s crucial for planners to increase their cities’ resilience. A...

We urgently need to adapt our built and natural environment to be more flood resilient in the face of climate change, a new book shows.

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discusses ways of dealing with the crisis...

Flash floods, burst riverbanks, overflowing drains, contaminants leaching into waterways: some of the disruptive, damaging and hazardous consequences...

The recent ‘unprecedented’ flooding in north-west England might be more common than currently believed, a group of scientists has warned.

As the death toll continues to rise in Nepal, Senior Lecturer Dr Ian Willis, and PhD student Evan Miles, from the Scott Polar Research Institute...

For researchers at the University at Cambridge, recent storm damage is providing vital data that could help improve future flood warnings and...

The sea sustains life but also threatens it. An innovative design concept by Ed Barsley aims to contend with rising seawater by welcoming it into our...