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• Ontario floods: How nature-based solutions can promote effective flood management

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  Ontario floods: How nature-based solutions can promote effective flood management

  The Conversation Canada - Brendon Samuels

  This week, large areas of Ontario experienced severe flooding that caused widespread power outages, water damages and disruption. Severe rainfall …

• Rising risk
  High-tech flood mapping allows homeowners and buyers to better protect themselves from flood risk — but they have to know where to look

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  Rising risk

  CBC News - About the Author

  High-tech flood mapping allows homeowners and buyers to better protect themselves from flood risk — but they have to know where to look The Saint …

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  Building Better Buyouts Through Lived and Learned Experience

  NRDC

  Community members, researchers, practitioners, and advocates have long experienced challenges with federally funded home buyout programs. At the same …

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  As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’

  downtoearth.org.in - Franco Montalto

  “When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it’s becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a …

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  Dubai Floods Expose Weaknesses to a Rapidly Changing Climate

  insurancejournal.com - Laura Millan

  The heavy rains that flooded Dubai last week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking …

• Vermont seeks balance between flood resiliency and floodplain protection

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  Vermont seeks balance between flood resiliency and floodplain protection

  wcax.com - Sophia Thomas

  RICHMOND, Vt. (WCAX) - As Vermonters in the path of flooding last summer continue to recover, communities are looking at buyouts and other strategies …