Climate change 'triple threat' increases severe flooding risk in biggest US cities
by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent from on (#FKJ0)
Trio of sea-level rise, storm surge and heavy rainfall exposes coastal cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Boston to potentially catastrophic flooding in future
America's biggest cities are at far greater risk of serious flooding in the coming decades than was previously thought, because of a "triple threat" produced under climate change, researchers said on Monday.
A combination of sea-level rise, storm surge and heavy rainfall - all functions of climate change - exposes New York, Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco, San Diego and Boston to a much greater degree, research published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change found.
