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Flood simulation model promises a big payback

Insurers won’t issue flood insurance until they have a better way to calculate risks —  and the flood simulation model does that

By Dianne Finstad May 12, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Agriculture is leading the charge into research which could ultimately mean flood insurance being available for all Albertans. As the massive flooding of 2013 highlighted, there is no insurance for such disasters. In fact, Canada is the only one of the G-8 nations without such coverage. ‘Why not?’ is the question that always arises when […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans, Weather

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

By Reuters March 5, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of […] Read more

Premier Stephen Harper and Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger examine flooded areas around Brandon in July 2014. (PMO photo by Jill Thompson)

General, Weather

Manitoba seeks more climate-responsive risk management

By Alberta Farmer Staff January 21, 2015

A Manitoba provincial task force has been set up to seek ways in which farm risk management programs could be “more comprehensive and sustainable” in handling “climate-related challenges” such as floods. “Manitoba’s farmers have told us existing agricultural programs can’t adequately address these climate-related challenges, especially as they become more common,” Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn […] Read more

News, Weather

Get ready for a lot more major floods, says Alberta meteorologist

U of A professor says the weather event that caused last year’s  devastating floods will occur every five years in future

By Alexis Kienlen April 29, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Albertans can expect major floods as often as every five years thanks to climate change, according to Gerhard Reuter, a meteorologist and professor at the University of Alberta. The last three big Alberta floods were in 2013, 2005, and 1996, and followed in the wake of “giant rainstorms,” which Reuter classifies as rain events of […] Read more

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Flood simulation model promises a big payback

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

Manitoba seeks more climate-responsive risk management

Get ready for a lot more major floods, says Alberta meteorologist

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