U.S. EPA seeks input on regulatory approach for managing excess flows
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host three public listening sessions to seek input on a rulemaking effort aimed at providing certainty surrounding the management of peak wet...
View ArticleGreen infrastructure limits flood risk, say insurers
This September 2018 report from the Insurance Bureau of Canada advocates for using green infrastructure to mitigate flood risk. A new Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC; Toronto, Ontario) report urges...
View ArticleRecord-breaking summer rainfall undermines Chesapeake Bay recovery efforts
Despite slight improvements to the Chesapeake Bay’s dissolved oxygen concentration, underwater grass growth, and shoreside green spaces during the last 2 years, scientists monitoring the largest...
View ArticleDenmark demonstrates footprint-free stormwater treatment method
The Danish island of Amager, located just east of Copenhagen, is the testing ground for an innovative stormwater treatment technology called dual porosity filtration (DPF). Early results from a...
View ArticleResearchers read tea leaves to study precipitation across millennia
The 12-year “Millennium Drought” that parched parts of Australia beginning in the late 1990s often is considered the most severe drought ever experienced by the island nation. But according to results...
View ArticlePassing planes pull added precipitation from clouds
From releasing greenhouse gases while in the air to discharging fuels, lubricants, and other potentially toxic chemicals before takeoff, countless studies have determined that air travel has an...
View ArticleNew scale helps meteorologists measure positives and negatives of atmospheric...
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long strands of highly condensed water vapor in the atmosphere that form over oceans and move inland. When ARs contact mountains in the western U.S., the system suddenly...
View ArticleFacial recognition AI sizes up hailstorms before they happen
Predicting the size and expected runoff volumes from hailstorms is notoriously difficult, according to researchers with the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Because cloud systems...
View ArticleLess snowpack may mean greater floods in western U.S.
Because climate change is causing more precipitation to fall as rain than snow in the western U.S., mountain communities face greater risks of severe flooding, according to new research from Stanford...
View ArticleIncreasing Dependence on Mountain Meltwater Could Threaten Lowland Agriculture
California’s Central Valley generates an estimated $17 billion in crop sales each year while occupying less than 1% of farmland in the U.S., according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). In many...
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