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...

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...

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...

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...