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United Kingdom: Tree planting 'can reduce flooding'
2016-03-11 04:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Planting trees around rivers could reduce the height of flooding in towns by up to 20%, new research suggests. A study for the Environment Agency concludes that trees round a feeder stream can slow the rush of rainwater and save properties from flooding. But it warns that natural flood prevention methods do not always work. And it urges a strategic approach because foresting a whole catchment would be counter-productive. The report - from the universities of Birmingham and Southampton - says...
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Water main break flooding homes in Mission Beach
2016-03-01 04:58:25| Biotech - Topix.net
City crews are working to fix a water main break which caused a geyser to flow from the middle of a street in Mission Beach. The geyser was reported at 5:30 p.m. on Bayside Walk at Seagrit Court, with 2-3 feet of water flooding the street.
Increased flooding in US coastal cities caused by climate change, study says
2016-02-23 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rising sea levels are putting increasing pressure on US coastal cities, with a new analysis showing that human-driven climate change is to blame for three-quarters of the coastal flooding events over the past decade. The Climate Central research shows that coastal flooding days have more than doubled in the US since the 1980s, the primary drivers of which have been the warming of the atmosphere and oceans. The findings are based on a separate study, released on Monday, that found the Earths seas...
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How farmers are trying a new kind of flooding to save Calif agriculture
2016-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: El Nios winter rains couldnt have come soon enough for George Goshgarian and his familys orchards. It's not that his crops are failing. Far from it. Instead, he's looking to the future. The storms are providing an opportunity for Mr. Goshgarian and a handful of other growers in California's San Joaquin Valley to test a new approach to stanching the loss of their most precious resource: groundwater. Groundwater is the reservoir of last resort in a drought, after rivers and surface reservoirs...
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Record Missouri flooding was humanmade calamity, scientist says
2016-02-06 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: At the end of December 2015, a huge storm named "Goliath" dumped 9-10 inches of rain in a belt across the central United States, centered just southwest of St. Louis, most of it in a three-day downpour. The rain blanketed the Meramec Basin, an area of 4,000 square miles drained by the Meramec River, which enters the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. The Meramec's response was dramatic. Gauging stations recorded a pulse of water that grew as it traveled down the main stem of the Meramec River,...
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