Research Shows More People Living in Floodplains

The proportion of the world’s population exposed to floods grew by 20 to 24 percent—ten times greater than what previous models had predicted.

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Map and chart imagery created by Benjamin Cooley, Cloud to Street, and provided courtesy of Tellman, B., et al. (2021). NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Story by Emily Fischer, NASA Earth Science News Team, with Michael Carlowicz.

Published September 27, 2021
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EO-1 > ALI

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Applied Sciences