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News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change boosted Australia’s 2010 floods

For the first time, researchers have linked the catastrophic floods in Australia in the summer of 2010 with global warming. And they warn that the double hazard of long-term ocean warming and rising a...

23 Nov 2015

Climate change boosted Australia’s 2010 floods

Opinion / Water

Thirsty for change? 4 ways to improve corporate water targets

...flood and other water risks. Current methods for creating corporate water stewardship targets are inadequate, in part because they often ignore the unique local context of water issues. For companies ...

13 Apr 2017

Thirsty for change? 4 ways to improve corporate water targets

News / Carbon & Climate

Monitoring hazards from the sky

The University of the Philippines (UP), in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, is using laser scanners inside manned airplanes to create high-resolution hazard maps and a flood ...

14 Jan 2016

Monitoring hazards from the sky

News / Policy & Finance

Green and safe, or dirty and dangerous? East Asia's cities grapple with growth

...floods and other hazards between 1970 and 2014 - more than half of global fatalities during that period. Despite its fast growth, only 36 per cent of East Asia's population currently lives in urban ar...

9 Feb 2017

Green and safe, or dirty and dangerous? East Asia's cities grapple with growth

News / Food & Agriculture

Protection of forests ‘fundamental to security of humanity’s place on this planet,’ UN Forum told

...floods, landslides and avalanches, and protect people from droughts and dust storms. Forests also played a critical role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change, serving as the world’s seco...

3 May 2017

Protection of forests ‘fundamental to security of humanity’s place on this planet,’ UN Forum told

News / Food & Agriculture

Farm impasse at climate talks threatens goal to end hunger: FAO chief

...floods. Graziano da Silva said the talks in Marrakesh had mainly rehashed old arguments. A division between cutting emissions and adaptation to climate change "does not apply to agriculture", he said ...

17 Nov 2016

Farm impasse at climate talks threatens goal to end hunger: FAO chief

News / Carbon & Climate

Actor DiCaprio says climate action is U.S.'s 'biggest economic opportunity'

...Flood" on the impacts of global warming two months ago. DiCaprio, who won an Oscar this year for playing a fur trapper battling nature's elements in "The Revenant", said his documentary is the most vi...

19 Dec 2016

Actor DiCaprio says climate action is U.S.'s 'biggest economic opportunity'

Press Releases / GlacialTech Inc

GlacialLight announces high efficiency flood light using COB LEDs

...flood light mounting bracket is composed of corrosion-resistant stainless steel and the light can operate in temperatures ranging from -40°C to +50°C, meaning that this flood light can be reli...

23 Nov 2015

GlacialLight announces high efficiency flood light using COB LEDs

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Where do we look for leadership? Could it be China?

...flooded in to invest in establishing themselves in China and contributed to this progress, but all along China has insisted on local content to optimize benefits to its own people. China has been both...

23 Jan 2017

Where do we look for leadership? Could it be China?

News / Manufacturing

NGO sues Aceh official over cement factory permit in Leuser Ecosystem

...flooding, which is the result of upstream deforestation, and water scarcity. In 2006, the district was hit with a deluge so devastating it was termed a “second tsunami,” after the disaster that struck...

5 Aug 2016

NGO sues Aceh official over cement factory permit in Leuser Ecosystem

Press Releases / World Ocean Council

WOC accredited as partner to Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

...Flood Partnership (GFP), African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education-English (ARCSSTEE), Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), and Integrated Carbon Observation Sy...

15 Jul 2016

WOC accredited as partner to Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

News / Carbon & Climate

New study links climate change to mounting natural disasters

More frequent floods, storms, heat waves, and droughts are connected to greater extremes in temperatures and rainfall, according to Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters, a new study from Indep...

27 Nov 2015

New study links climate change to mounting natural disasters

News / None

Trumped climate summit struggles to regain relevance

...floods and storms more frequent and more intense; and raising the sea level. The loss and damage are hitting all countries, and are of particular concern to the poorest among them. But industrialised ...

16 Nov 2016

Trumped climate summit struggles to regain relevance

News / Energy

Are mega dams a solution or burden to climate change?

...flooding afflicting central Luzon in the Philippines for decades. Situated along the Agno River, 216 kilometres north of Metro Manila, the 200-metre-high mega-structure holds as much as 835 million cu...

4 May 2016

Are mega dams a solution or burden to climate change?

Press Releases / Royal HaskoningDHV

Dutch expert team works on coastal protection strategy in Philippines

International engineering and project management consultancy firm Royal HaskoningDHV is leading a multi-disciplinary team in developing a sustainable coastal protection strategy to reduce flood risks ...

5 Nov 2015

Dutch expert team works on coastal protection strategy in Philippines

News / Policy & Finance

As disaster risks rise, 20 vulnerable nations get help to prepare

...floods and droughts. "The aim is to save lives, safeguard development gains, and reduce the economic impacts of crises," said United Nations Development Program Administrator Helen Clark. Development ...

25 May 2016

As disaster risks rise, 20 vulnerable nations get help to prepare

News / Energy

Pakistan ramps up coal power with Chinese-backed plants

...floods and scalding summer temperatures to erratic rainfall that can kill crops. China's ambassador to Pakistan, Sun Weidong, stressed that coal power is only part of the projects China is supporting ...

3 May 2017

Pakistan ramps up coal power with Chinese-backed plants

Press Releases / Esri South Asia

ASEAN missing opportunities to make transport smarter, says expert

...flooding in every day,” Mr Bills said. “But by using advanced technology to map and analyse Big Data, we can reveal previously hidden blind spots in transportation trends and traffic patt...

26 Oct 2016

ASEAN missing opportunities to make transport smarter, says expert

News / Carbon & Climate

Killer cyclone crosses Bangladesh coast

...floods in Sri Lanka tracked along the eastern coast of India before making landfall in the Barisal-Chittagong region of Bangladesh. All work in Bangladesh’s largest port Chittagong remained suspended....

23 May 2016

Killer cyclone crosses Bangladesh coast

Opinion / Water

Water as a force for peace

...flood or starve downstream populations, to pressure them to surrender. Many analysts hope that ISIS will finally be eliminated from Iraq and Syria in the next few months. But that does not mean that t...

12 Jan 2017

Water as a force for peace

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