In the changed and still changing climate, extreme precipitation events are rapidly intensifying. The resulting urban floods impact a built environment designed for the past, and rural floods threaten food security in many countries. Join us here to develop a a better understanding of the probability of extreme urban and rural floods are changing and of the risks associated with the impacts of these events on the built environment and our food security. Help us to find pathways to adapt the built environment in a proactive, socially just, and economically feasible way for a future with extreme river and urban flooding. Help us to develop a food supply system that is resilient in the face of widespread loss of agricultural production due to extreme rural floods.
[Jan. 26, 2026] Devastating Floods in southern Africa mobilize Crocodiles: Rachel Savage reports in an article in The Guardian that crocodile warnings have been issued because the extreme flood waters bring crocodiles with them. More than a hundred people have been killed by the flood waters, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In southern Mozambique at least three people were killed by crocodiles that came with the flood water of the Limpopo River.
