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Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and how it happens

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 6, 2022June 6, 2022
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Floods are going to get worse: we need to start preparing for them now

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsDecember 16, 2021December 16, 2021
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Canada’s flood havoc after summer heatwave shows how climate disasters combine to do extra damage

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 25, 2021November 25, 2021
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If we don’t learn from past climate disasters, they will claim more lives in the future

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 16, 2021November 16, 2021
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Coastal flooding could save atoll islands from rising seas – but only if their reefs remain healthy

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsSeptember 20, 2021September 17, 2021
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Europe’s catastrophic flooding was forecast well in advance – what went so wrong?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 26, 2021January 19, 2022
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