Breaking Down: Collapse

Daily Episode 221 - Flooding Today and in the Future

Breaking Down: Collapse

Show Notes

While some places are too hot with too little water, others are experiencing too much rainfall at once. Also, the floods of the future will have a combination of effects that will make them even more devastating.

‘Unprecedented’ rain kills five in Japan as thousands stranded at airport | Japan | The Guardian ‘I just want to find them’: deadly cloudbursts devastate Kashmir’s mountain communities | Kashmir | The Guardian Typhoon Dolphin: more than a million people evacuated in China as record rainfall dumped on Shanghai | Extreme weather | The Guardian The floods of the future won't come one at a time » Yale Climate Connections

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