A new flood mitigation programme at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on behalf of Anglian Water will use an innovation-led approach to protect properties, delivering more than 20% cost savings on traditional approaches and minimising disruption.

 The Environment Agency’s proposal to increase the maximum level of water that can be stored in the Leigh flood storage area has been approved by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Mytholmroyd’s new flood alleviation scheme, providing greater protection to 400 homes and businesses, as well as local infrastructure, schools and other public amenities has been officially opened.

More than 250 homes and businesses in Ponteland are better protected from flooding now Environment Agency work on a £2.7million flood scheme has been completed.

A host of environmental benefits and flood defences for towns and villages around the Norfolk Broads are the result of a 20 year project reaching its conclusion. The unique scheme will improve and maintain 240km of flood defences in the Norfolk Broads, one of Europe’s most important wetland areas.

Historic citywide flooding in New York City over the past three days has highlighted the vulnerability of the city’s infrastructure to climate change impacts.

A new study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative, which has been conducting real-time attribution analysis of extreme weather events as they happen around the world since 2015, has concluded that last month’s heavy rainfall which led to severe flooding in Western Europe was made more likely by climate change.