Japan
It seemed to miss
Japan altogether before coming back with a vengeance: Typhoon
LIONROCK (12W) Path as tracked by JAXA
USA
Other
How
plant roots sense, react to soil flooding Researchers
have just discovered a mechanism that allows a plant to adjust its water status
and growth according to different soil flooding conditions. The results of this
study describe how roots sense and respond to soil oxygen and potassium levels
jointly, so as to change their water uptake capacity. Aside from their
scientific importance, these findings could make it possible to optimize crop
flood tolerance.
http://aqua-monitor.appspot.com/
Surface water changes (1985-2016). Green and blue
colors represent areas where surface water changes occured during the last 30
years. Green pixels show where surface water has been turned into land
(accretion, land reclamation, droughts). Blue pixels show where land has been
changed into surface water (erosion, reservoir construction). The results of
the analysis are published in: Donchyts et.al, 2016, Nature Climate Change
Vulnerable people
Floods
severely affect children, young people Research
with flood-affected children reveals serious impacts on well-being but also a
desire to take on a role in flood risk management. Factors impacting on
children's well-being include: loss of valued personal and family possessions,
friendship networks, familiar spaces, education; experience of fear, anxiety,
poverty, isolation, unfairness, destruction, stress, uncertainty, being
ignored/misunderstood; lack of sleep and recreation; deterioration in diet,
space and housing conditions; lack of flood education provision in schools for
children and all staff. The study shows that having an active role in flood
risk management actually helps with children's recovery. Yet current flood and
emergency planning policy either ignores children or positions them as
'vulnerable', rather than treating them as citizens in their own right. The
report proposes children should be given more information before, during and
after flooding because they have a right to know how to prepare, what to expect
and how they can contribute.
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