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Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Australian animals

Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and are now racing to repair fencing that keeps feral predators away

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Google flood prediction AI - Flood Hub.

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Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa

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How a UK river serves as a natural lab for flood defence research

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New way to predict river flood risk could help prepare for disasters

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UK faces rising costs for flood damage even with modest warming

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Satellite photo of the Yellow River delta in China

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Efforts to prevent the Yellow River flooding may have made it worse

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A Culex mosquito, the genre of insect that can spread Japanese encephalitis

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Australia’s Japanese encephalitis outbreak blamed on climate change

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TOPSHOT - A man paddles his kayak next to a submerged bus on a flooded street in the town of Milton in suburban Brisbane on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Patrick HAMILTON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

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Record flooding in Australia driven by La Niña and climate change

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Man caught by flood

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Extreme rising seas could wipe out assets worth $14 trillion by 2100

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German floods

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Recent decades of European floods are among the worst in 500 years

The years 1990-2016 rank among the worst periods of flooding in Europe in five centuries, according to an assessment of historical letters, annals and legal records

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Climate chief: How coronavirus shows us we can beat global warming

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Climate change will boost risk of extreme flooding in northern Europe

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Can we create new land to save the fragile Mississippi delta?

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Storm Barry is heading towards New Orleans – how big is the risk?

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