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Annual flood damage costs in the UK are expected to rise from £1.1bn today to £27bn by 2080. The insurance industry is adapting to the increasing number of extreme weather events by offering premium discounts to encourage more resilient choices among house builders. Still, the response needs to be bolder and faster, experts argue.
Italians demanded that more money be spent on making buildings resistant to earthquakes, as the country counted the cost of twin quakes that reduced villages to rubble and left thousands homeless. Geologists say the seismically-active country has one option: to learn to live with the threat by strengthening buildings as much as possible with proven anti-quake measures.
As climate change is blamed for pushing temperatures up to what is expected to be their highest annual peak since records began, experts say London is well prepared to deal with the worst of it, accoding to The Telegraph...
'We are committed to addressing the risks from climate change - by increasing awareness and making far-sighted decisions we can address these risks, save money and safeguard our homes and communities for the future' aspokesman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told The Telegraph...
A new study conducted at the Univesity of Bordeaux found that the flow of surface liquid around a soap bubble membrane acts in the same way as huge weather systems which form over the earth, reports The Telegraph. 'This study therefore provides a simple model that could help meteorologists to better predict the strength of tropical cyclones in the future,' said the report authors...
The UK government has announced that its flood risk management budget for 2013 will be £294 million and that it will include 93 new flood defences, which will create thousands of new jobs and facilitate economic growth by protecting businesses. But...
Instead of building walls to keep floods out, developers are beginning to wonder – why not open up, and let the water in? 'We see the water as a friend, rather than foe. The aim is to manage the incoming water, and direct it where we want it to go – if needs be, into the development's car parks or garden squares. The fact is, traditional engineering solutions are not going to provide a long-term solution to climate change.'...
There are already three important lessons to be learnt from Japan's nuclear scare and the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami: the first concerns preparedness, or lack of it; the next lesson comes from the leaking nuclear power plants; and the third lesson, then, comes from the public reaction to Fukushima, reports the Telegraph...
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