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An artificial sports pitch that absorbs rainwater and lets it evaporate on hot days stays much cooler than ordinary fake grass. The self-cooling turf could protect athletes from burns and heat exhaustion while helping cities manage storm waters.
A new tsunami warning system could have saved many of the 22,000 people killed by the massive tsunami following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, had it been in place there at the time. That’s the message from simulations assessing how the system – now installed elsewhere in Japan – would have responded to the Tohoku quake itself.
Europe’s flood problem is about to get much worse. The good news is there is a solution, says a new report from the European Environment Agency – the first assessment to cover the whole of Europe, according to New Scientist. The floods just keep coming and Europe’s citizens are suffering. 'The recent flood problems in the UK are adding to evidence of worsening flood problems in Europe,' says co-author Beate Werner...
NewScientist reports on a new finding that huge atmospheric rivers (ARs) which wind their way through the skies have been linked to the 10 largest winter floods in the UK since the 1970s. The author asks, 'will climate change affect ARs?'...
'The levees and spillways have held back most of this year's floods – but how should they be adapted for an eroding coastline and a changing climate?', ask Peter Aldhous and Ferris Jabr writing for the New Scientist...
'The warming climate won't force the Pacific to dump heat into the air, but it might make El Niños and La Niñas more common' reports Michael Marshall for the New Scientist, looking at recent climate studies...
Phil McKenna from the New Scientist interviews Elizabeth Hausler, founder of Build Change, a non-profit organisation which designs and helps to build earthquake-resistant housing in developing countries and recipient of the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability...