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Nov 14, 2012

Restorative Flood in Grand Canyon Starts Sunday Night

The Colorado River will gush at flood stage starting Sunday night (Nov. 18), giving rafters a rare thrill and hopefully restoring beaches and native fish habitat in the Grand Canyon. The six-day-long water release from Glen Canyon Dam is the first of many floods planned by the Department of the...

Nov 19, 2012

Grand Canyon Flood Underway to Rebuild Beaches

The Colorado River cascaded in a flood from the Glen Canyon Dam today, the first step in an ongoing experiment to rebuild beaches and fish habitat in the iconic Grand Canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar opened the dam's bypass tubes at noon Mountain Time, releasing a spectacular display of gushing...

Nov 27, 2012

Beaches Back After Grand Canyon Flood

Sandy beaches have reappeared more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, an early measure of success for a massive flood last week designed to rebuild habitat along the Colorado River in the iconic Grand Canyon. However, it will be weeks before scientists know whether the six...

Dec 17, 2012

Before and After Images: Grand Canyon Flood

Flooding (Image credit: U.S. Geological Survey.)In late November, an artificial flood raced through the iconic Grand Canyon, temporarily transforming the clear blue water back to its historic copper color. The first of several planned floods, the Department of the Interior ordered the deluge, released in a gush from the Glen...

Jan 21, 2013

How Oysters Can Prevent Flood Damage

For a simple bivalve, the oyster has played an unusual role in human history. It's celebrated as a food source, as a reputed aphrodisiac and, now, as a possible savior of coastal cities threatened by flooding. Point Pleasant, a community in New Jersey that was pummeled by Hurricane Sandy last...

Jan 28, 2013

Queensland Flooding Forces 20 Swift Water Rescues, Evacuations Underway

This article was provided by AccuWeather.com. Two days of heavy rain as the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Oswald impacted Australia have left many rivers in Queensland flooded. Hundreds of people have been evacuated due to the flood risk in the towns of Gladstone and Bundaberg, according to the BBC. At...

Mar 8, 2013

Ancient Mega-Flood on Mars Revealed in 3D

Radar scans of Mars have revealed the first 3D look at water-carved channels buried beneath the Red Planet's surface, researchers say. The discovery shows that a major underground channel generated by an ancient mega-flood is twice as deep as thought, and sheds light on how water shaped the surface of...

Mar 13, 2013

Shorelines Could Help Forecast Tsunami Floods

Predicting flooding from tsunamis saves lives. After the Tohoku earthquake two years ago, alerts issued in advance of the monster waves saved thousands of people in Japan and other countries circling the Pacific Ocean. But for many in Japan, the forecasts failed. Models could not predict how far inland the...

Mar 27, 2013

Why You Are Paying for Everyone's Flood Insurance

Andy Stevenson, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Finance Advisor and Dan Lashof, Director of NRDC's Climate and Clean Air Program contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. There are many, many compelling and urgent reasons to take decisive action to combat climate change. Here's one that's measurable...

Apr 17, 2013

Spring Flooding Underway for Dakotas, New England

This article was provided by AccuWeather.com. Spring flooding is beginning to impact areas on par with predictions made by AccuWeather.com and NOAA last month. Rain and snowpack have contributed to flood warnings for parts of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, tributaries of the Red River in North Dakota and Rock...

Apr 19, 2013

Major Flooding Continues From Missouri to Michigan

This article was provided by AccuWeather.com. Torrential rain, concentrated in two days or less, has led to major flooding in parts of the Midwest. In some areas, flooding will continue beyond the weekend. While the rain was exiting the region at increasing speed Friday, runoff from small streams into progressively...

Apr 22, 2013

Record Crests at Midwest Rivers; Flooding to Continue This Week

This article was provided by AccuWeather.com. River flooding ongoing from Michigan to Tennessee has led to record crests along parts of several major rivers. While dry weather is forecast through Monday, additional rain on Monday night into Tuesday could lead to additional rises. According to AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex...

Jun 24, 2013

India's Severe Floods Spied by Satellite

An Earth-observing NASA satellite has captured images of northern India's devastating floods that have left hundreds of people dead this month. India's seasonal monsoon kicked off with unusual intensity in the state of Uttarakhand, which borders Tibet and Nepal. From June 13 to June 19, an average of 12.68 inches...

Jul 2, 2013

Large Antarctic Crater Created by Underground Flood

The buried lakes under Antarctica's ice cap can unleash massive floods, just like glacial lakes on land, scientists are starting to realize. One recent deluge sent as much water as is in Scotland's Loch Ness flowing under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near the Cook Ice Shelf, a new study...

Jul 18, 2013

Korean Peninsula Flooded by a Month's Worth of Rain in One Week

This article was provided by AccuWeather.com. The first half of the month had yielded periods of flooding rainfall to much of the Korean Peninsula, and more is on the way. The combination of a slow-moving frontal boundary and tropical moisture has led to rainfall nearly every day of July across...