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University of Southampton study highlights urgent need for layered flood defences in Shanghai as climate and subsidence pressures grow

(IN BRIEF) A new international study led by the University of Southampton warns that Shanghai could face far larger and deeper floods by 2100 as extreme weather, sea-level rise, and land subsidence interact to intensify compound flood events. Researchers modelled … Read the full press release

DreamLab App Harnesses Smartphone Power to Create Accurate Tropical Cyclone Maps

(IN BRIEF) Scientists at Imperial College London have partnered with the Vodafone Foundation’s DreamLab app to create the world’s first accurate tropical cyclone maps. These maps, made freely available to the public, help visualize areas at risk of tropical cyclones … Read the full press release

New project by Imperial College London and Vodafone Foundation aims at creating the world’s largest cyclone model

(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 4-Mar-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Vodafone (LON: VOD), a British multinational leader in technology communications, has announced that Vodafone Foundation’s DreamLab mobile phone app will be used by Imperial College London, a public research university, for the modeling … Read the full press release