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Double flood trouble for Europe in the next 40 years

2014-03-02 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Europe's politicians should bulk-buy waterproof boots. By 2050 extreme floods will swamp Europe twice as often as they do now, and the annual costs of flood damage could increase fivefold. A new analysis of peak river flows provides some of the best evidence yet that climate change will make floods worse. However, other factors such as building in flood zones have a bigger effect on costs, because more buildings are in harm's way. Unlike earlier studies, this study incorporates patterns of...

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Flood damage cost to rise fivefold across Europe, study says

2014-03-02 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The huge cost of flood damage is set to soar fivefold across Europe in coming decades, according to the first comprehensive analysis of risk across the continent. The cost of homes, belongings, businesses and infrastructure wrecked by the wettest winter in England for 250 years has been at least 1bn and over the last decade the average annual loss across the European Union has been EUR4.5bn. But increasingly intense downpours driven by climate change, as well as population growth and urbanisation,...

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London Gatwick Airport makes 30m available to improve flood resilience

2014-02-27 01:00:00| Airport Technology

London Gatwick Airport has put aside 30m as a resilience fund to avert future disruption to passengers following the unprecedented flooding on Christmas Eve.

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