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…

Better projections of the impact of climate change on coasts in the coming century

9 July 2021

Effects of climate change Climate change is widely expected to lead to many noticeable changes in natural systems, both on land and in the ocean, and as early as mid-century(For example, an increase in rainfall…

Results from ten years of Sand Motor at Kijkduin promising

2 July 2021

Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen of Infrastructure and Water Management: “I’m proud of the Sand Motor. It has boosted national knowledge development and it is an icon of innovation with an international reputation. The Sand Motor…

Flood risk underestimated, particularly in the tropics

29 June 2021

“To assess flood risks, we need to know the exact land elevation,” explains Al Hooijer, a researcher at Deltares and the National University of Singapore, and first author of the paper ‘Global LiDAR land elevation…

More people exposed to low-probability coastal flooding than previously expected

29 June 2021

Using their novel dataset, the researchers found that 192 million people are exposed to a 1-in-1000 year flood, of which 60% can be attributed to tropical cyclones – also called hurricanes or typhoons – alone….