Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds
NPRClimate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Feig/AP Bill Feig/AP Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm, according to a sweeping new analysis published Monday. Sponsor Message The new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, attempts to estimate not just the scale of flood risk in the U.S., but who will bear the burden of flooding. People living in Texas, along the Gulf Coast and the Southeast will suffer more damaging floods, and communities where Black people live will see a disproportionate rise in flood risk. Reza Marsooli, an engineer who studies flood risk at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, says there needs to be "more public awareness of climate change and its connection to flooding," especially in communities that are projected to see the biggest increase in flood risk in the coming decades.
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