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Floods as war weapons

2015-06-09 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: A new study shows that, from 1500 until 2000, about a third of floods in southwestern Netherlands were deliberately caused by humans during wartimes. Some of these inundations resulted in significant changes to the landscape, being as damaging as floods caused by heavy rainfall or storm surges. The work, by Dutch researcher Adriaan de Kraker, is published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). During the Eighty Years' War, as the Spanish army fought...

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