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Climate Change + Population Growth + Economic Expansion = More Severe Flooding
2016-04-06 19:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Already the most destructive and deadly of all natural disasters, science tells us that flooding events will increase in frequency and intensity with climate change. Meanwhile population pressures will continue to see more and more building in low-lying coastal areas and flood plains. Investment in adequate defenses will need to grow massively to protect against this advancing threat. The engineering challenge comes when excess water, usually from too much rainfall or melting snow, flows where...
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