While the numbers may seem small, the rise significantly increases the likelihood of severe flooding along vulnerable coasts worldwide.

In January 2005, torrential rains caused severe flooding in the densely populated coastal regions of Guyana, including the capital, Georgetown.

But Sandy was worse, delivering hurricane strength winds, drenching rains, and severe coastal flooding throughout the populous mid Atlantic and northeast corridor.

We have helped people affected by severe flooding in Southeast Asia, and by drought in the Horn of Africa, where 14 million need emergency help.

In western Pakistan nearly three weeks of heavy rains resulted in severe flooding, which in turn led to the collapse of a major dam in Sind province.

They were often followed by outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue, and flooding could destroy a country's crops, with a severe impact on sources of income and employment.

A couple years ago there was severe flooding that led to thousands of deaths that's directly attributable to the fact that there are no trees on the hills to stabilize the soil.

Letters of sympathy kept flooding in.

Increased variability and intensity of rainfall as a result of climate change is expected to produce both more severe droughts and flooding, with potentially serious consequences for water supply and for pollution from combined sewer overflows.

She began to film the flooding and Dana .

If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.

A particularly intense and destructive hurricane season has left many thousands homeless as countries in the Caribbean as well as Central and North America continue to grapple with the effects of severe flooding and mudslides that those storms left behind.

Flooding global markets with Canadian oil would constrain global oil prices.

It can grow in areas subject to seasonal flooding or brackish water.

So the rains come, they go down the rivers, and the flooding happens.

Yangtze River The worst period of flooding was from July to August 1931.

The climate has changed. I will show you no more flooding, no more fires.

In January 2010, major flooding along the river inundated more than 400 rural properties.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Policy recommendations representing major paradigm shifts in thinking are flooding the global policy stage.

Other Parties expected an increase in rainfall and flooding, thus affecting hydroelectric power generation.

Simply flooding markets with cheap high calorie, low nutrient grains will never solve chronic malnutrition.

A photo of water flooding the 'Road of Hope' in Aleg published by Alegcom blog.

However, Romanian authorities said on April 22 that the worst of the flooding had passed.

In July 2004, heavy monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in a large area of Bangladesh.

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And storm surges now ride on these elevated sea levels, amplifying flooding losses where they strike.

Nests may be protected from physical threats such as flooding and overheating by elaborate nest architecture.

One death took place in New Caledonia, while flooding caused eight drownings in Papua New Guinea.

But in many other countries, the water is already flooding over the dikes, both literally and figuratively.

On the one hand, the reduction of flooding is beneficial since it protects settlements from flood damage.

Disasters as a result of flooding continued to affect the largest number of people worldwide (132 million).

As we speak, a severe hurricane is once again pounding Grenada, causing severe damage.

On a smaller scale, European countries like Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic have also suffered serious flooding.

Indeed, today the global economy s arsonists have become prosecutors, and accuse the fire fighters of having provoked flooding.

It is mainly associated with bad things happening to people which includes drowning, missing, flooding and many more.

A Flickr group has been created, Thailand's Great Flood 2011, to gather photos of the flooding in Thailand.

Chat rooms often do not allow advertising or flooding , which is continually filling the screen with repetitive text.

The main purposes of the dam are to produce 1500 MW of hydro electricity and to manage flooding.

The St. Elizabeth's flood of 1421 was a flooding of an area in what is now the Netherlands.

The flooding was compounded by drainage problems resulting from limited pumping capacity and poor maintenance of drainage systems.

Since the beginning of the month the state of Tabasco, Mexico has been incrementally flooding due to massive rains.

Aware of the high vulnerability of Afghanistan to natural disasters and harsh climate conditions, in particular drought or flooding,

Meanwhile, Pakistan is struggling with unprecedented flooding that has killed more than a thousand people and affected millions more.

By keeping its currency undervalued and flooding world markets with artificially cheap goods, China pursues a predatory trade policy.