Development of a new European platform on climate services for coastal risks and adaptation 

22 September 2021

Exploring shoreline dynamics The CoCliCo project is a Horizon Europe project, led by Goneri le Cozannet (BRGM). Besides the development of a webportal, Deltares is also involved in defining coastal typologies and exploring shoreline dynamics…

Long-term sea-level rise necessitates a worldwide commitment to adaptation

20 September 2021

Without adaptation the present population at risk doubles at 0.75m SLR globally The study highlights that for some coastal locations it is a matter of time. After only ~0.15m SLR relative to 2020, 1 million…

High water in Limburg in the summer of 2021 had more impact than river floods in 1993 and 1995

10 September 2021

More damage than the floods of 1993 and 1995 The amounts of rainfall and river discharges measured have never been so high, particularly in summer. It has been estimated that an event of this kind…

Climate proof sandy coasts

6 September 2021

However we must still learn to better understand the lower shoreface which forms the essential link between the offshore sea bed and the nearshore zone. This lower shoreface also plays an important role in understanding…

Extreme sea levels to become much more common worldwide as earth warms

30 August 2021

  That means, because of rising temperatures, an extreme sea level event that up until now has been expected to occur once every 100 years is expected to occur every year, or even more frequently,…

Nature-based Solutions as cost-effective method to drive climate change adaptation

27 August 2021

Launched during World Water Week, a new report by Deltares, commissioned by WWF, finds that restoring European rivers to a more natural state and dynamics increases flood resilience in a more sustainable and economically viable…

Seven take-aways from the IPCC WG-I Report on Global Climate Change

9 August 2021

The IPCC Assessment Reports are globally recognised as the most comprehensive assessments on the state of climate science. The AR6 combines the scientific expertise of 721 authors and an additional number of contributing authors from…

Government of The Republic the Marshall Islands and Deltares sign a strategic partnership: promoting present and future climate resilience

29 July 2021

A successful story of cooperation The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) consists of 29 low-lying coral atolls comprising of 1,156 individual islands in the northern Pacific Ocean. With a land elevation averaging only 2…

Fifty per cent of the Mekong Delta at risk of salinization due to sand mining and dam building

15 July 2021

The study shows for the first time the combined effect of climate change and human impact on salt intrusion at the scale of a mega delta such as the Mekong Delta. “As encroaching salt intrusion…

Saint-Louis, caught between two threats

12 July 2021

“In the past, a passage was made from the river to the sea in order to drain the excess river water more quickly,” says Pieter Koen. “However, that crossing has started to grow uncontrollably, become…