{"id":41500,"date":"2021-08-11T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/?p=41500"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:21:04","slug":"the-wsj-and-dr-pant-weigh-in-on-the-challenges-of-increasing-flood-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/news\/the-wsj-and-dr-pant-weigh-in-on-the-challenges-of-increasing-flood-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"The WSJ and Dr Pant weigh in on the challenges of increasing flood risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Wall Street Journal video features Dr Raghav Pant.\u00a0 <strong>Flooded Subways: Transit Systems Face Risks From Extreme Weather<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>Transit systems from New York City to London and Zhengzhou, China, have been inundated in recent weeks. Extreme rainfall and flooding are increasing climate-related risks and costs for underground infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/flooded-subways-transit-systems-face-risks-from-extreme-weather\/AA61CFD8-A382-45E4-9987-32491B24700C.html\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/flooded-subways-transit-systems-face-risks-from-extreme-weather\/AA61CFD8-A382-45E4-9987-32491B24700C.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feature photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@purzlbaum?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Claudio Schwarz<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/flood?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Wall Street Journal video features Dr Raghav Pant.\u00a0 Flooded Subways: Transit Systems Face Risks From Extreme Weather Transit systems from New York City to London and Zhengzhou, China, have been inundated in recent weeks. Extreme rainfall and flooding are increasing climate-related risks and costs for underground infrastructure. Video: https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/flooded-subways-transit-systems-face-risks-from-extreme-weather\/AA61CFD8-A382-45E4-9987-32491B24700C.html &nbsp; Feature photo by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":41501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"areas":[],"class_list":["post-41500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41503,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41500\/revisions\/41503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41500"},{"taxonomy":"areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itrc.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/areas?post=41500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}