Beijing issued its highest alert for rainstorms on Monday, days after deadly deluges swept parts of the Chinese capital and ...

New research  finds that a combination of extreme climate events, sea-level rise and land subsidence could create larger and deeper floods in coastal cities in future.  The study focused on Shanghai ...

Researchers describe this potential disaster as the “polder effect.” Unlike regular floods, where water eventually drains away, sinking delta cities behave like deep bowls.

Coastal cities have been warned that extreme weather, rising seas, and sinking land could combine to create far bigger and deeper floods by the end of this century. The warning was issued by a new ...

New research shows how the combination of extreme climate events, sea-level rise and land subsidence could create larger and deeper floods in coastal cities in future. The study appears in One Earth, ...