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If we don’t learn from past climate disasters, they will claim more lives in the future

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12 November 2021

A central focus of discussions at the ongoing UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow is how to adapt to a warming world, including how to prevent climate hazards from becoming…Read More >

Why flooding is still so difficult to predict and prepare for

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14 November 2019

Reading hydrologist Professor Hannah Cloke writes for The Conversation on why floods are such difficult beasts to pin down, despite the efforts of the brightest scientists and supercomputers.

Britain is in the middle of a drought – so how come there’s flooding?

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12 June 201914 March 2023

Flooding expert Professor Hannah Cloke puts the recent heavy rain across the UK in context and gives her top tips for future flood preparedness in a new post for The…Read More >