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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new technique to improve water-infrastructure design and flood modeling on a local scale. Credit: Sara Levine | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The risk of flooding in the continental United States peaks every spring. Experts point to deep snowpack, late winter storms, and rapid melting.…

water covers residential property on Route 11 after heavy rain on July 10, 2023 in Londonderry, Vermont. Torrential rain and flooding has affected millions of people from Vermont south to North Carolina. Photo: Scott Eisen (Getty Images)Vermont woke up to widespread flooding, mudslides, and road closures after heavy rain engulfed the region this weekend and on Monday. Emergency responders have conducted more than 50 water rescues for residents trapped in their vehicles, or in their homes by the fast moving floodwaters,…

CORCORAN, Calif. —  A few years ago, Makram Hanna took his savings from years of work in real estate and decided to make a big investment together with relatives and two other families. They bought 1,270 acres of farmland in Kings County, and in 2021 they planted pistachio trees.Many of those trees, which have yet to produce a crop, now sit under 2 feet of water.“It’s a disaster,” Hanna said, standing with arms crossed beside rows of inundated pistachio trees. “Huge losses.” Jose Pineda squeezes a…

Flood causing logistical problems. Credit: Javier Houspanossian A new study revealing that huge expansions of extensive large-scale agriculture is making the South American plains more vulnerable to widespread flooding should act as a "wake-up call," say researchers. The grasslands of the Argentinean Pampas, famously home to the…

Image via Warner Bros. The titles of the Harry Potter books are known to be very wordy, and tend to drop hints about what is contained within their pages. While we may not have ever gotten any proper insight about the process J.K. Rowling undertakes when naming these books, fans took it upon themselves to come up with possible rejected ideas that could have become “official” names for the books in the franchise. Some fans have come up with interesting ideas that were somewhat in the spirit of the original…

Distribution of owner–occupant FEMA HMGP participants, 1990–2017. Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd654 Even after suffering flood damage, homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to accept higher risk of disaster repeating itself than relocate to areas with more racial diversity and less flood risk, according to new research from Rice University.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The risk of catastrophic flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin has diminished as cool temperatures have predominated this spring, flattening the melt curve of the Sierra's epic snowpack, state officials said Monday. We are "not forecasting nearly as severe of damage as perhaps we were looking at…

Tesla is starting to flood the Canadian EV market with China-made electric cars, which are cheaper and could change the market. When first announcing plans to build cars in China, CEO Elon Musk clearly stated that it would only be to satisfy local demand and that Tesla wouldn’t export vehicles from China. That changed after Gigafactory Shanghai quickly surged to become Tesla’s most productive plant and the world’s largest electric vehicle factory. It became Tesla’s main export hub – mainly…

Elon Musk's SpaceX and Unipol Gruppo agreed to join forces to help people hit by flooding in northern Italy connect to the Internet, facilitating rescue operations, the Italian insurer said on Saturday.Torrential rains devastated the eastern side of the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, killing 14 people, causing billions of euros worth of damage and hitting agriculture particularly hard. Around 36,000 people were forced to leave their homes and many of those who remained in flooded areas were left with no electricity.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Flying thousands of feet above the Sierra Nevada in a plane equipped with specialized imaging devices, Elizabeth Carey has been scanning the mountains with lasers to precisely map the snow. The snow blanketing the Sierra lies so deep that the mountain range looks surprisingly swollen and "puffy,"…