Global warming, human activities causing increased storm runoff, flash floods

Mongabay
Oct 30, 2018, 11:55 am204 pts
According to a report by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, climate-related catastrophes like droughts, floods, and other extreme-weather events accounted for more than 90 percent of the 7,255 disasters recorded over the past 20 years, which…

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