Blogposts tagged 'Flooding'

How often do ‘once in a thousand year’ events happen?

Posted by christian - 22 November 2009 at 3:43pm - 0 Comments

Flooding in the UK - The river Severn in 2000

I grew up in Cumbria, so I've been following the flooding there, described by the Environment Agency as ‘unprecedented', pretty closely. Electricity and gas supplies have cut out in parts of the area affected. Dozens of people have been rescued by the lifeboat service. People have died. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn called it a "one in a thousand year event".

Article tagged as: climate change, cumbria, flooding, IPCC

Making a connection and making a difference

Posted by mollybrooks - 13 May 2009 at 12:58pm - 2 Comments

Molly and the whaleMolly is our online marketing coordinator and is next up in the blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

In January 2005, the Onilahy River in southwest Madagascar flooded. Nineteen people were killed and thousands left homeless. The cyclone that caused it was probably exacerbated by climate change; the landslides that followed were definitely made worse by extensive deforestation in the area.

The flood was little reported outside Madagascar. Similar events, caused or worsened by environmental destruction, happen all over the world on a regular basis, and most of them don't make the news. The only reason I know about it is because I was there.

Article tagged as: blog relay, climate change, deforestation, donation, flooding, madagascar, supporters

Official: burning fossil fuels has changed rainfall patterns in the UK

Posted by bex - 24 July 2007 at 1:39pm - 0 Comments

Flooding

The Red Cross is stretched to their limits, in Tewkesbury. Thousands of people previously living in Gloucestershire’s rolling hills suddenly find themselves homeless. A third of a million people have no drinking water.

Article tagged as: climate change, flooding, impacts, precipitation, science, UK

The impacts of climate change on nuclear power station sites

Publication date:  12 March, 2007

 

This review looks at the impacts that climate change will have on the coastal environment around a selection of power station sites, over the lifetime of both existing and proposed nuclear reactors, and examines the risks to which they would be exposed by rising tide levels, coastal erosion and storm surges. It also highlights the even more disastrous consequences that would ensue upon the loss of a significant area of land-based ice such as the Greenland ice shelf, which could result in a catastrophic global sea level rise.

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Article tagged as: climate change, flooding, impacts, nuclear power, reports

Proposed new nuclear plants at grave risk of flooding

Posted by jossc - 12 March 2007 at 4:04pm - 3 Comments

Close to the edge? Dungeness is one of the nuclear plants most at risk

Close to the edge? Dungeness is one of the nuclear plants most at risk

Article tagged as: climate change, energy review, flooding, nuclear power

Pentagon predicts climate chaos

Posted by bex - 25 February 2004 at 8:00am - 0 Comments
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Wasting energy - power station cooling towers are grossly inefficient

Article tagged as: climate change, development, drought, flooding, impacts, sea levels, stop esso, USA

Flash floods in Pakistan

Posted by bex - 24 July 2001 at 7:00am - 1 Comment
Climate change: English country floods

Climate change: English country floods

Flash floods have killed at least 150 people in Pakistan in the last 48 hours. The floods have buried homes built of corrugated iron and wood, sent mountains of mud crashing into villages and turned dried canals into roaring rivers.

Torrential rains that began before dawn on Monday wreaked havoc in Pakistan's mountainous north-west, where rivers of mud slammed into villages burying homes and killing more than 120 people. Many more people are still missing and authorities fear they are buried beneath the mud.

Article tagged as: climate change, flooding, impacts, pakistan

Thousands stranded in flooded Orissa

Posted by bex - 19 July 2001 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
Globe showing climate change

Globe showing climate change

The eastern Indian state of Orissa has received 84% more rain than usual resulting in floods that have left 30 people dead and up to 500,000 marooned. The floods - have affected more than four million people and 7,000 villages.

It is still raining heavily in parts of Orissa and the death toll is rising according to local officials. The federal government in Delhi has pledged some $22m in aid to the region.

Article tagged as: climate change, flooding, impacts, india, orissa

Heaviest rain in South Korea for 37 years

Posted by bex - 19 July 2001 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
Climate change: English country floods

Climate change: English country floods

The death toll in South Korea from the heaviest rain in 37 years rose to 40 on Monday as rescue workers sifted through the wreckage left by the downpour. The rain, which was most severe in the area of the capital, Seoul, followed months of unprecedented drought and triggered floods and landslides.

Article tagged as: climate change, disasters, flooding, impacts, landslides, precipitation, south korea
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