The Flood Blog

Here's where I'm keeping interesting flood-related bits and pieces which I haven't been able to fit anywhere else. Seen something to go...

As I finally wrap this blog up, I've been thinking about what I've learned over the past few months. Global environmental and...

I've talked a lot about the human factor on this blog: floods don't become disasters until people get involved. This got me wondering if...

Get your year off to an icy start with this excellent archive footage of Lake George in Alaska breaking through the Knik Glacier in a...

Well, the Christmas cake has been iced, the gin has been poured, so it's time to gather round for a tale of festive inundation. On...

Much discussion on a recent post about the number of houses in the UK being at risk of flooding. Here's a lovely bit of dataviz for a...

A few weeks ago I attended a lecture on groundwater, something I'd never thought much about before (although chucking dye down potholes...

Last year, Google rolled out a pilot flood forecasting service in Patna, India. For an unnecessarily dramatic introduction, look no...

Heavy rainfall across the north of England has caused widespread flooding over the past two weeks, with thousands of households affected....

One of the things I keep running into while researching this blog is the concept of the levee effect: that construction of flood...

With flood warnings issued across the north of England this week, the publication of a new book on the subject is especially timely. I'm...

I came across a great tool this week from Carbon Brief, which maps scientific papers assessing the link between extreme weather events...

For the first post of the flood blog, I want to talk a bit about what we mean when we talk about floods as disasters, and what that...

Hello, and welcome to the flood blog! This is a space for discussing all matters diluvial, from GLOFs to lahars. Floods are one of the...