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Click the downloadable graphic: Climate Change and Flooding Climate change affects three key flood drivers, leading to both increases and decreases in inland flooding depending on the location and ...

Although floods are a natural occurrence, human-caused climate change is making severe flooding events like these more common. I study how climate change affects hydrology and flooding.

"Four-year-old Francis Gaskin, who lives with his family in Houston, has a favorite episode of his favorite new Netflix cartoon ... floods. ""I don’t know of any other show about climate change ...

The floods in Missouri and Kentucky this week were both caused by extreme rainfall. Climate change is making such rain more common, and driving dangerous floods across much of the U.S. Climate ...

How climate change affects rain and floods Date: March 12, 2025 Source: Vienna University of Technology Summary: Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study ...

There is a need for systematic action and change to safeguard against flooding; Professor Günter Blöschl, University of ...

Climate change intensified the catastrophic floods that swept through several U.S. states at the beginning of April, a new report has found. At least 15 people have died as a result of the flooding, ...

The historic rain and flooding in parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and other states caused by intense April thunderstorms was likelier and also more intense because of climate change. That’s ...

As Europe battles severe flooding, we ask what role is climate change playing in extreme rainfall? Will floods get worse as global temperatures rise? Severe storms have wreaked havoc across Spain ...