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Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced a flash flood warning for the region beginning on Tuesday
and is urging people to use caution while traveling for the upcoming holiday.
The city is also deploying staff with the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) to get supplies and hotel vouchers to those living outside.

Woke up to 15 #COP30 press releases, most saying the same thing. None, of course, mentioning China.
I know the #climate talks are important, but what purpose does it serve flooding journalists with press releases the same 2-3 weeks every year? Is this civil society money well spent?

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov

Torn on whether I should have my first watch of ep 3 #HeatedRivalry tonight or if I should watch TITANIC to compare Really Intense Eye-Flooding Love tropes
(I’m also looking to watch SAME TIME NEXT YEAR for related tropes too)

Town on the Banks of the Nile Turns Flooding into Fortune https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/town-on-the-banks-of-the-nile-turns-flooding-into-fortune/

Town on the Banks of the Nile Turns Flooding into Fortune
In Bor, South Sudan, tens of thousands of people used to have to walk several miles to borehole wells alongside the banks of the White Nile. 

We are not in an era where democracy is “challenged.”
We are in an era where democracy is under siege.
Authoritarianism isn’t knocking…it’s battering the door.
Propaganda isn’t creeping…it’s flooding.
The public isn’t outraged…they’re exhausted.
This isn’t a moment for:
“Be Inspired.”
“Stay Hopeful.”
“Vote Blue.”
“We’ll Be Fine.”
This is a moment for:
“DO. NOT. LET. GO. OF DEMOCRACY.”

Why #HoldFast Must Become the Rallying Cry of Democracy
The Ancient Command Built for Storms, Now Reborn for a Nation Under Siege

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p3#a251218p3

‘A serious amount of rain’: central Queensland flooding could isolate some communities for months https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/12/rain-central-queensland-flooding-could-isolate-some-communities…

One of the more famous digital investors, Marc #Andreessen, half of the #a16z name, is not only on the board of #Meta, but also investor in

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

"Warmer seas and heavier rains linked to deadly Asia flooding, study finds"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange

Warmer seas and heavier rains linked to deadly Asia flooding, study finds
Warmer seas and heavier rains linked to climate change, along with Indonesia and Sri Lanka's unique geographies and vulnerabilities, combined to produce deadly flooding that killed hundreds, scientists said Thursday.

I just had a paper accepted on #AtmosphericRivers in # Antarctica (expect more on that later), this is a great piece on what they are and how they're observed
European aircraft to track ‘rivers in the sky’ blamed for flooding - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/df1f3e7f-6463-4616-85ca-49591fa9ec00 via @FT

Belgorod dam strike triggers flooding that could stall Russian advance near Vovchansk, analyst says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/belgorod-dam-strike-triggers-flooding.html

Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65168-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p76#a251120p76

The victim numbers keep climbing in this #flooding event, geographically widespread across the Indian Ocean. Cyclones and monsoon have combined to affect the Indonesian Peninsula, Sumatra, and even Sri Lanka on the other side with torrential rains with single day values greater than the entire typical month. These are rare events becoming more common under

Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka: #Impact May Have Led to Flooding near the #GrandCanyon: #Barringer Meteorite Crater.

"Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands"
#Africa #Wetlands #Environment

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based solutions. The city is restoring and reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity.

On the Mones
Where pharmacist, menopause myth-buster, and accidental midlife icon Kate Thomas breaks down the chaos of hormones, perimenopause, ageing, wellness woo, and the medical misinformation flooding your feed...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/on-the

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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

No reported loss of life in Washington historic flooding | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article313661553.html

A look at CollectiveMetrics.org, a new nonprofit founded by two ex-Meta ad executives that aims to bring more transparency to digital advertising to fight scams (Craig Silverman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scam-ads-are-flooding-so…

Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem.

😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-floods-record-rainfall-3492e2748c8504392943f21b5df5079…

Record rainfall causes major flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient sites
Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An. By late Monday, Hue saw record rainfall of 42 inches within 24 hours. By Tuesday morning, water levels in Hue's Perfume River rose to 15 feet. The ancient town of Hoi An experienced waist-deep floods, leading to tourist evacuations by boat. The floods have disrupted train routes between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. About 1,000 people in rural areas are isolated due to flo…

This week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome This week feels like work and wonder at once. Night comes early in the north and the Geminids begin to stitch bright threads across the cold sky. Far south, heat lifts and cicadas test their summer chorus. In that split screen of seasons, our stories settle on two steady

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected #environment

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected
Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater threat than previously understood. Intensifying extreme rainfall events may amplify these losses unless vulnerable regions adopt more resilient rice varieties.

It's time for Cascadia to impound federal taxes
https://www.cascadia-journal.com/its-time-for-cascadia-to-impound-federal-taxes/?ref=cascadia-journal-newsletter
Where Cascadia is Washington and Oregon only.…

It's time for Cascadia to impound federal taxes
As Washington and Oregon face numerous economic threats, including the real possibility of recession, disastrous flooding, continued wildfires, and massive cuts to the federal budget by the Trump administration, it's time to consider an idea that's been gaining traction in blue states hit hard by Trump's authoritarian rule: holding federal

Pressure mounts on Mamdani to 'continue the fight' on illicit Chinese vapes flooding NYC (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pressure-mounts-on-mamdani-to-continue-the-fight-on-illicit-chinese-vapes-flooding-nyc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p96#a251208p96

Awesome start to the morning, digging channels in the ditches to alleviate local flooding. These are the hands of a software engineer!

maybe someone should start flooding twitter with links to illegal sports streaming sites

https://nonviolencenews.org/2025/12/29/creative-action-in-2025/

The flooding in Hội An is incredible to see. So much destruction :(

So far, we've been lucky; no one's died. Fingers crossed it stays that way
Historic rains and flooding trigger dramatic rescues in Washington state | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/burlington-seattle-donald-trump-cities-helicopters-b2883784.html

#ListeningClub As usual lately, just starting to make brunch. The coastal flooding we’ve been warned about for over a week finally hit yesterday, albeit further north of us, but it has been raining hard since last night so we’ll see!

"People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”), epitalon for sleep and retatrutide — a next-generation weight-loss drug still in clinical trials — for everything from appetite suppression to increased focus."

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

Hurricane #Melissa to hit Jamaica as a cat. 5 major hurricane with winds of 255 km/h:
"A multi-day period of damaging winds and heavy rainfall is expected to begin tonight, causing catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding and numerous landslides."

Flooding the zone.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/politics-9rga37brz/-/a-vpaFI0T_Sg-…

Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Parts of Santa Barbara County as 101 Closes for ‘Unknown Duration’
Debris flow and flooding close Highway 101 in both directions through Goleta Saturday morning.

In BC, Abbotsford and other border areas are under flood evacuation orders, especially from the Nooksack River. The Tyee recently reported on the lack of an agreement on flooding of the Nooksack, which is a perennial problem that the US government has ignored.
British Columbia and Washington need to work on a Cascadia-focused agreement on how to manage the Nooksack without meddling from the United States or Canada, which are apathetic to the real issues facing our region

Cascadia Journal
Observations on news, politics, and the arts in the Pacific Northwest.

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine (Benoit Faucon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/how-venezuelan-gangs-and-african-jihadists-are-flooding-europe-with-cocaine-656f023f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p132#a251201p132

Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/bus…

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!

Cities in India, Kenya, Myanmar, and the Philippines are showing us how to build climate resilience the right way—from the ground up.
Communities are leading nature-based solutions to manage flooding, protect water resources, and create greener urban spaces. The key? Putting marginalized voices at the center of policy decisions that affect their lives.

Strengthening urban resilience through collaboration: lessons from India, Kenya, Myanmar and the Philippines
IIED and partners spotlight urban community-driven solutions across four countries

Belgorod governor says Ukrainian strike damaged Belgorod Reservoir dam, warns of flooding risk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/25/belgorod-governor-says-ukrainian-strike.html

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/more-than-1400-dead-across-asia-after-rare-cyclone-typhoons-converge/

More than 1,400 dead across Asia after ‘rare’ cyclone & typhoon converge
At least 1,400 people have died as a result of flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, with many more still missing. The unusual combination of a tropical typhoon and two tropical cyclones is behind the mounting humanitarian disaster. Scientists and meteorologists note that Cyclone Senyar formed just north of the equator, […]

Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.

AI fake news sites are flooding Facebook today with stories about a Nashville Superbowl white power halftime show to counter Bad Bunny.
Among the featured performers: Willie Nelson.
That should be a clue.

Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/robinhood-ceo-vlad-tenev-04e3ab28?st=r…

Traders Are Flooding Markets With Risky Bets. Robinhood’s CEO Is Their Cult Hero.
Brokerage co-founded by Vlad Tenev makes exotic investments available to ordinary investors, seeing aggressive traders as key to company’s success

Santa Barbara Police Department:
Please avoid the following intersections due to flooding:

-San Andres @ Canon Perdido Street
-00 Calle Cesar Chavez Street
-Shoreline Drive between Castillo and Loma Alta


Por favor, evite los siguientes cruces debido a las inundaciones:

-Calle San Andres con Calle Canon Perdido
-Calle Cesar Chavez (numero 00)
-Zona costera entre Castillo y Loma Alta

"Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

California Prepares for More Rain After a Soggy Christmas (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/weather/rain-flooding-los-angeles-storm.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p2#a251226p2

A Greenland glacier is cracking open in real time #Greenland

A Greenland glacier is cracking open in real time
A meltwater lake that formed in the mid-1990s on Greenland’s 79°N Glacier has been draining in sudden, dramatic bursts through cracks and vertical ice shafts. These events have accelerated in recent years, creating strange triangular fracture patterns and flooding the glacier’s base with water in just hours. Some drainages even pushed the ice upward from below, like a blister forming under the glacier. Scientists now wonder whether the glacier can ever return to its previous seasonal rhyth…

Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point. 
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn #nature

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn
With climate change expected to intensify heat waves, flooding and air pollution in cities worldwide, why are we not tapping into the full potential of nature-based solutions?

Cul-de-sac effect: Why Mediterranean regions are becoming more prone to extreme floods in a changing climate #mediterranean

Cul-de-sac effect: Why Mediterranean regions are becoming more prone to extreme floods in a changing climate
In May 2023, Italy's Emilia-Romagna region experienced devastating, if not unprecedented, floods that caused widespread damage to infrastructure, homes, businesses, and farmland. Seventeen people lost their lives, and the disaster caused an estimated €8.5 billion in damages. The persistent rainfall and resulting landslides and flooding displaced tens of thousands of residents, leaving a deep mark on the region's economy and communities.

Report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards #environment

Report reveals nearly 80% of the world's poor live in regions exposed to climate hazards
Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty—887 million out of 1.1 billion globally—are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution.