Showing posts with label Hazards Floods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hazards Floods. Show all posts

Thursday, 16 August 2007

London's drowning

With this summer's torrential downpours still fresh in the memory a new £25m disaster movie, The Flood, charts the devastation of central London. It's a dramatic vision, but could it really happen?

Animations of how the Thames Flood Barrier works and maps of areas affected

Link to BBC NEWS | Magazine | London's drowning

Monday, 23 July 2007

FLOODS July 2007

Link to BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Floods: At-a-glance

Flood crisis grows as rivers rise LINK

The Severn: Severe warnings for Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Worcester

The Thames: Severe warnings affecting Eynsham to Sandford Lock and also Little Wittenham

The Ock: Severe warnings from Charney Bassett to Abingdon

The Great Ouse: Severe warnings from Turvey to Sharnbrook

The Avon: Severe warnings at Evesham

LINK Floods bring chaos across county

Gloucestershire FLOODS LINK

Flood in pictures LINK

Thursday, 12 April 2007

River Flooding

Interactive site on Floods

Sunday, 18 March 2007

GCSE Geography

BBC EDUCATION SCOTLAND has a good 14+ Geography page. Topics covered include
  • COASTLINE - Physical Environment Human Impact
  • DEVELOPMENT and HEALTH Physical and human factors that influence Development. Social and Economic Indicators of Development.
  • HAZARDS - Floods and Volcanoes
  • EUROPE - Environmental Inequalities Rivers and Coasts
  • GLOBAL POPULATION Measuring data Collecting Data and Migration
  • RIVERS - Hydrological Cycle and the Drainage Basin

Tuesday, 20 February 2007

Floods

This ATLAS of flooded lands is worth investigating.

BANGLADESH Floods

This OXFAM page is a good case study on Flood management in Bangladesh