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News / Carbon & Climate

Do Chinese people care about climate change?

China has had an eventful summer marked by record-setting heatwaves, deadly flash floods, and typhoons. The impacts of climate change have been felt in cities and the countryside alike, and seem to ha...

10 Oct 2018

Do Chinese people care about climate change?

News / Water

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

...flooded with tourists. It can spell a disaster for us in the future. Tashi Dorje, resident, Ladakh Too many tourists Earlier, Angdo recalls, only foreign tourists used to visit Ladakh. “Now, we get a...

2 Aug 2018

Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity

News / Water

Three promising new technologies could help send stormwater to taps in thirsty cities

...flood prevention. In Los Angeles, for instance, the US Army Corps of Engineers developed a massive network of concrete channels to divert stormwater to the ocean after a massive flood in 1938 killed m...

7 Jan 2019

Three promising new technologies could help send stormwater to taps in thirsty cities

Opinion / Cities

How can China lead on air pollution?

...flood of urban migration, they must address not only basic needs such as housing and employment but also issues impacting liveability and public health—including air pollution. Nowhere is this challe...

10 Jun 2019

How can China lead on air pollution?

News / Food & Agriculture

Will Indonesia’s new rice plan be a repeat of an epic past failure?

...flooding. “That’s why the study can’t be done partially,” he said. “It has to be conducted using satellite imagery for at least one year to see the land cover.” Basuki questioned the feasibility of fi...

21 May 2020

Will Indonesia’s new rice plan be a repeat of an epic past failure?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

What we can learn from China’s fight against environmental ruin

...flooding in the Yangtze and Yellow rivers conserving forests in the north-east mitigating desertification in the dry north and rocky south reducing the impact of dust storms on the capital Beijing inc...

13 Jul 2018

What we can learn from China’s fight against environmental ruin

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Forests and wetlands are water infrastructure. New green bond helps finance their protection

...floods recently wreaked havoc in southern England, Texas and Bangkok. These are not simply one-off events; they represent systemic failures in water infrastructure development—failures that are increa...

24 May 2018

Forests and wetlands are water infrastructure. New green bond helps finance their protection

school boys in India drink water from bucket

News / Water

One quarter of the world's population face extremely high water stress

...floodplains, and groundwater recharge areas, and collecting and storing rainwater. Local pockets of extreme water stress While it’s helpful for policymakers to understand and take action on water stre...

19 Aug 2019

One quarter of the world's population face extremely high water stress

News / Policy & Finance

Can the Belt and Road Initiative push peace in South Asia?

...floods. “This would be one of the important confidence-building measures between the two countries and would win goodwill for India in Pakistan and the international community,” he said. “Under the IW...

15 Jan 2019

Can the Belt and Road Initiative push peace in South Asia?

Opinion / Water

Are we underestimating the world's water access crisis?

...flooding. Experts warn that it could be underwater by 2040. With rapid urbanisation, increased water scarcity, and a general underinvestment in water infrastructure, many more cities will find themsel...

14 Aug 2019

Are we underestimating the world's water access crisis?

Scavengers pick through garbage collected at a landfill site in Thailand.

Opinion / Waste

Why we're hunting for treasure—in old landfill sites

...flood plains or near the seashore, may be at risk from flooding or coastal erosion. So what should be done about these old landfill sites? One answer may be to dig them up again. Old landfills do have...

30 Aug 2018

Why we're hunting for treasure—in old landfill sites

News / Corporate Responsibility

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

...flood and half of the trees were wiped out. It was a very sad day. Just two weeks after they were planted, a massive flood destroyed half of the trees in the Nepal site. Image: Woodchuck In Madagas...

15 Aug 2018

Facing down witch doctors and Mother Nature to restore Asia's forests

Opinion / Water

Why the rich in Jakarta have better access to water than the poor—it's not the piped network

...flooding increases. Whenever flooding occurs, floodwater and wastewater contaminate piped and groundwater supplies in low-lying coastal areas. The result is that the city’s poorest residents, living o...

28 Mar 2018

Why the rich in Jakarta have better access to water than the poor—it's not the piped network

News / Policy & Finance

New research investigates spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

...floods and droughts in the late 1990s convinced the government of China that deforestation was a major threat to water quality and flood control, the country responded quickly, spending more than $100...

10 Apr 2018

New research investigates spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

News / Carbon & Climate

2018 was the fourth hottest year on record

...flooding, heat waves, intense precipitation and ecosystem change,” Schmidt said. The US experienced 14 “billion dollar weather and climate disasters” last year, for instance, which claimed the lives o...

11 Feb 2019

2018 was the fourth hottest year on record

Opinion / Corporate Responsibility

Does biodiversity matter to business?

...floods, and so forth—is $125 trillion, or is roughly two-thirds more than global GDP. Hence, the WEF concludes that biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are both more likely and potentially more d...

25 Feb 2019

Does biodiversity matter to business?

News / Policy & Finance

Corruption and coal dug up in Indonesia

...flooding due to loss of tree cover, which has increased water runoff from the surrounding hills.Nevertheless, the government has ramped up coal output. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called for the co...

15 Jul 2019

Corruption and coal dug up in Indonesia

News / Carbon & Climate

In climate change-hit Bangladesh, hospital boats keep healthcare afloat

...flooding and storms to worsening erosion. According to government records, at least 466 families living on chars in Gaibandha in northern Bangladesh lost their homes due to river erosion last year and...

23 May 2019

In climate change-hit Bangladesh, hospital boats keep healthcare afloat

News / Water

As water disappears, parched southern Pakistan farmers march north

...flood irrigation and failure to leave enough water in systems to support nature, played a far bigger role. "Together these have been catastrophic for the environment as well as the local population," ...

9 Jul 2019

As water disappears, parched southern Pakistan farmers march north

News / Waste

Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

...flood of entanglements with the CPR. Ostle and her coauthors note that the CPR travels through the water in a way that is similar to the way marine animals move, and so it faces similar entanglement t...

18 Apr 2019

Swelling amount of plastic in the ocean confirmed by new study

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