The Flood Blog

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...

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...

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

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...