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USGS has recently published: “ Monitoring Floods and Fires during the Summer of 2011 — The Value of the Landsat Satellite 40-Year Archive “
Tags: climate-change, energy, floods, geology, geology-news, georgia, middle-east, news, pennsylvania, shale, usgs, virginia“Torrential rain inundated southeastern Brazil in early January 2012, causing severe damage in multiple states.
NASA ’s Earth Observatory has satellite images of recent flooding along the Namoi River in New South Wales, Australia . The waters cut off numerous communities and swamped others
Tags: australia, carolina, current-events, earth, earthquakes, floods, geology, geology-news, geophysics, Jobs, massachusetts, pennsylvania, satellite images, shale, virginiaThe land beneath Bangkok is subsiding, sea level is rising and that means flood risk for the Thai capital is rapidly increasing.
Tags: astronomy, california, earth, earthquakes, environment, floods, Geology.com, hawaii, massachusetts, middle-east, united-statesThe Atlantic has a photo gallery with a large number of high resolution images of the flooding in Bangkok, Thailand.
Tags: earth, floods, Geology.com, hurricanes, mexico, middle-east, minerals, plate-tectonics, rivers, united-states, waterAn act to extend the authorization of the National Flood Insurance Program, to achieve reforms to improve the financial integrity and stability of the program, and to increase the role of private markets in the management of flood insurance risk, and for other purposes. Note: The National Flood Insurance Program is over $17 billion in debt because it pays out more than it collects.
Tags: astronomy, climate-change, floods, geology-news, Geology.com, insurance, oregon, pennsylvania, politics and geology, program, virginia, waterThis video tours areas near Vicksburg, Mississippi where even homes that were elevated 10 feet off the ground will be flooded before the river crests.
Tags: alabama, california, cnn, earth sciences, floods, geology-news, Geology.com, middle-east, pennsylvania, tennessee, waterAfter intentionally breaching a Mississippi River levee to save Cairo, Illinois , the city of Memphis, Tennessee is at highest risk of flooding. The Mississippi River there is flowing at a rate of 2 million cubic feet of water per second and the crest is not expected until Tuesday.
Tags: california, climate-change, earthquakes, floods, geology-news, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, middle-east, pennsylvania, satellite images, united-states, virginiaThe United States Supreme Court did not block a plan to intentionally break a Mississippi River levee near Cairo, Illinois that will flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland instead of the town of Cairo, Illinois . Explosives are being loaded into the levee.
Tags: australia, black, california, climate-change, earth, earthquakes, floods, Geology.com, illinois, marcellus-shale, rivers, supreme-court, united-states, waterThe United States Supreme Court did not block a plan to intentionally break a Mississippi River levee near Cairo, Illinois that will flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland instead of the town of Cairo, Illinois . Explosives are being loaded into the levee.
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