The catastrophic floods that hit the Texas Hill Country in July left residents and officials scrambling for answers. In response, the Hydrology & Hydroinformatics Innovation (H2I) Lab at The University of Texas at Arlington, ...
Environment
Sep 18, 2025
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The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understory due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of flooding in floodplain ...
Ecology
Apr 16, 2025
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As extreme weather and flooding events become more intense and frequent due to climate change, improving flood mitigation strategies has never been more critical. The livelihood of downstream communities relies heavily on ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 9, 2025
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When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete barriers usually come to mind. But what if the best solution—for people and nature—isn't to confine rivers, but to give them more space?
Environment
Mar 24, 2025
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Common methods of communicating flood risk may create a false sense of security, leading to increased development in areas threatened by flooding.
Earth Sciences
Jan 6, 2025
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A paper, titled "How local governments avoid floodplain development through consistent implementation of routine municipal ordinances, plans, and programs," published in Oxford Open Climate Change uncovers evidence suggesting ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 19, 2024
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A nationwide analysis of community-level floodplain development found that over two-million acres of floodplain were developed over the past two decades across the United States, with roughly half of all new floodplain housing ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 12, 2024
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Monitoring echolocation clicks could be used to track the movements of two endangered freshwater dolphin species that inhabit inaccessible parts of the Amazon Basin—the boto (or pink river dolphin) and the tucuxi—and ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2023
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As extreme weather events become more often and intensify, the number of people and places exposed to flooding events is likely to grow.
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2023
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Humans, as a rule, do not like floods. And three years of La Niña rains have meant Australians have had more than enough of floods.
Ecology
Nov 9, 2022
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