Destructive Flood Risk in U.S. West Could Triple if Climate Change Left Unchecked

InsideClimate News

The risk of devastating floods will soar in many of North America’s Western river basins by 2100, if we don’t dramatically slow climate change, according to a new study. The research, published in Nature Climate Change, provides a grim analysis of a kind of extreme weather called a “rain-on-snow” flood, which is when heavy rains fall on top of deep snowpack and trigger intense floods.

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