Credit to Author: Nexus Media| Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:20:50 +0000
Another 54 people died in Pakistan in a 24-hour span earlier this week, bringing the official death toll of the extreme rains and flooding to 1,481. The unprecedented monsoon rains submerged one-third of the country — including much of the nation’s main agricultural region — and left 33 million homeless. Estimates of the total costs […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:12:00 +0000
While hydropower provides about 16% of global electricity generation today, climate change is predicted to drive various changes in hydrology that could translate into a spectrum of risks for hydropower production. A recent study published in the journal Water estimates 61% of all global hydropower dams will be in basins with very high or extreme […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:30:47 +0000
Continuously tracking how and why sea level is changing is an important part of informing plans for adaptation. Our ability to monitor and understand the individual factors that contribute to sea level rise allows us to track sea level changes in a way that has never before been possible.
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:50:28 +0000
Across the United States, the majority of states lack laws that require flood damages be fully disclosed to home buyers. The consequences can be financially ruinous to those who unwittingly purchase a flood-prone home. States that don’t require disclosure of flood risks, or have inadequate disclosure requirements, hurt those with future flood damages. Why wouldn’t a state […]
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:08:24 +0000
“We thought we were covered,” she said. “I just finally have kind of realized that we have no home left. And everything we’ve worked our butts off for is gone.”
Read moreCredit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:51:49 +0000
Merritt and Princeton will receive direct grants to build temporary housing to bring residents back to their communities while permanent homes are rebuilt.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:23:36 +0000
Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun says he was among 28 mayors who met with federal and provincial ministers to ask about the delivery of $5 billion from Ottawa.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 15:55:38 +0000
The complaints about funding come after wildfires raced through the province last summer, destroying numerous homes and much of the village of Lytton.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:18:54 +0000
On Monday, federal Minister Bill Blair finished a tour of B.C. communities that experienced those devastating floods, where some people still have not been able to move home.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:02:27 +0000
Rising water levels in the Nooksack contributed to flooding on the Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford and resulted in billions of dollars of damage to the province’s agriculture industry.
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