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Climate poses threat to ancient culture

...floods in the region, with outsiders coming in to chop down trees. Bajur Khan, another senior figure in the Kalash community, says the 2015 flooding – which also destroyed centuries-old walnut trees −...

24 Mar 2016

Climate poses threat to ancient culture

News / Carbon & Climate

Women's wisdom crucial to beating climate change, researchers say

In the Indian community of Mahewa, when monsoon floods come, women start to eat and drink as little as possible. But the change has nothing to do with the availability of clean water and food. Instead...

12 May 2016

Women's wisdom crucial to beating climate change, researchers say

News / Policy & Finance

As 'most disaster-prone region,' Asia-Pacific needs risk-sensitive development, UN reports

...floods, while Nepal's capital city, Kathmandu, bore the brunt of the economic damage from the April earthquake. Ecological buffers depleted by unplanned urbanisation Widespread floods in Chennai, Indi...

14 Mar 2016

As 'most disaster-prone region,' Asia-Pacific needs risk-sensitive development, UN reports

Opinion / Energy

The key to more dams, less damage

...flood control, navigation, and water storage. Our research shows that these services add an estimated $770 billion annually to the global economy. Failure to design dams to their fullest potential, th...

11 May 2017

The key to more dams, less damage

News / Policy & Finance

INTERVIEW - Chaotic urbanisation puts cities in harm's way: UN

...floods, storms or rising seas. And when earthquakes strike cities, as with Haiti's capital in 2010, they can cause massive devastation in crowded slums with shoddy construction. Urban crises alliance ...

31 May 2016

INTERVIEW - Chaotic urbanisation puts cities in harm's way: UN

News / Water

Water, sanitation innovations to transform urban slums

...flood-water inundations, which will limit breeding of vectors, such as mosquitoes and rats.” This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s South-East Asia & Pacific desk. This article was originally pu...

2 Feb 2017

Water, sanitation innovations to transform urban slums

Opinion / Transport

Connectivity gains for India’s North East via waterways

...floods in Brahmaputra and Barak also wash off roads and transport infrastructure. The river network systems, on the other hand, offer natural and centuries-old navigation channels connecting the NER r...

18 Dec 2017

Connectivity gains for India’s North East via waterways

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Climate trauma: The invisible cost of climate change

...flooding areas, or that we need a better electrical infrastructure. Sadly, for many years politicians have allowed these practices and now people, especially low-income communities, are facing the con...

3 Nov 2017

Climate trauma: The invisible cost of climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Too hot to work: global warming to cost $2 trillion in lost productivity

...floods, mudslides, extreme heat, drought, high winds or fires. In Asia Pacific, 1.2 billon people have been affected by 1,215 disasters - mostly flood, cyclones and landslides - since 2000. In April, ...

20 Jul 2016

Too hot to work: global warming to cost $2 trillion in lost productivity

Opinion / Water

Signs of worry, signs of hope on World Water Day

...floods The second alarm wailed over the opposite problem: too much water, falling too quickly. River floods caused $104 billion of damage in 2014, and flooding (river and coastal) made up almost half ...

22 Mar 2016

Signs of worry, signs of hope on World Water Day

Videos / Carbon & Climate

In pictures: Confronting climate change

...flooding. Atop a rooftop in Yuhua estate, Jessica speaks with Frank Phuan, the founder and director of Sunseap Group, one of the most established solar developers in Singapore. Phuan says even if h...

2 Mar 2017

In pictures: Confronting climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

...flooding events. Ultimately, as the edges of the dome sink below the high water level of the bordering rivers and sea, more frequent and longer-lasting floods will inundate the plantations, eventually...

26 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

News / Water

India’s tech capital looks underground for answers to water shortage

...flooding turned out to be the result of a shallow aquifer that nobody knew about. Borewells had largely tapped the intermediate and deep aquifers, but this water source just below the surface was undi...

10 Feb 2017

India’s tech capital looks underground for answers to water shortage

News / Policy & Finance

G20 group issues first set of guidelines for climate risk reporting

...floods and storms and the upfront cost of low-emissions technology. The report covers strategy, governance, risk management and metrics, and raises questions such as whether a company has assigned cli...

21 Dec 2016

G20 group issues first set of guidelines for climate risk reporting

News / Policy & Finance

‘Sustainable insurance’: Seven takeaways from the first-ever summit of insurers and city leaders

...floods,” she said, “you don’t call the municipality — you call the insurance company.” City officials convinced insurers that there was mutual interest in sharing granular data on water-damage claims....

15 May 2017

‘Sustainable insurance’: Seven takeaways from the first-ever summit of insurers and city leaders

Opinion / Energy

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Myth-busting on the Mekong’s hydropower dams

...flood waters are stored during rainy seasons and then discharged over the entire year. This should result in higher flows during dry seasons. Thus, upstream dams on the Mekong and on its tributaries i...

13 Sep 2017

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Myth-busting on the Mekong’s hydropower dams

News / Energy

Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, study finds

...flooded by the dam. This means certain sites should be avoided, in particular shallow dams in warm regions, with large variations in water level. For bioenergy, the footprint is also highly uncertain ...

12 Dec 2017

Solar, wind and nuclear have ‘amazingly low’ carbon footprints, study finds

News / Carbon & Climate

Australian business is waking up to climate risks

...floods that struck Thailand five years ago caused widespread asset damage—such as destroying entire fleets of cars at automotive manufacturing plants which cost insurers billions. Climate change also ...

27 Jun 2017

Australian business is waking up to climate risks

News / Policy & Finance

Trump win will not derail global climate effort, activists vow

...flooding and other types of extreme weather events are becoming stronger and more frequent, and the United States is not immune," said Kelly Stone, a policy analyst for the charity ActionAid. "This is...

9 Nov 2016

Trump win will not derail global climate effort, activists vow

News / Food & Agriculture

IRRI and FAO step up joint efforts to globally bolster sustainable rice production

...floods. Both FAO and IRRI are actively promoting more sustainable rice practices throughout the value chain - production, marketing and consumption - to optimise its nutritional properties and as a me...

31 Mar 2017

IRRI and FAO step up joint efforts to globally bolster sustainable rice production

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