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'Global boiling': Billions already suffer in heat over 1.5°C limit

...floods, storms and wildfires fuelled by temperatures above the 1.5°C Paris Agreement threshold, the scientists said. "Many people are living in areas that have already warmed more than 1.5°C, an...

28 Aug 2023

'Global boiling': Billions already suffer in heat over 1.5°C limit

News / Energy

Shrinking glaciers threaten Chinese and Indian energy transitions

...floods in India’s northern Uttarakhand state in 2013 that killed over 6,000 people and damaged at least 10 hydropower projects. In 2021, an avalanche caused a flood in Chamoli district of the same sta...

9 Dec 2022

Shrinking glaciers threaten Chinese and Indian energy transitions

News / Food & Agriculture

Pakistan floods leave cotton workers' dreams in tatters

...floods shattered all those dreams," Daraz, 30, said as he surveyed scattered stems of cotton plants across his land, the craters left by the floods still visible. Before the flooding, Pakistan's cotto...

18 Oct 2022

Pakistan floods leave cotton workers' dreams in tatters

News / Cities

Kashmir’s flood management plan faces heavy criticism

...flood threat”, river water flooded two colonies of more than 20 houses in the Bemina area of Srinagar. At least three villages in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district were hit by flash floods. The rain...

8 Aug 2022

Kashmir’s flood management plan faces heavy criticism

News / Policy & Finance

Will ‘loss and damage’ climate funding reach ocean communities?

...flooding, heatwaves – that are constrained in space and time,” she says. “For fisheries, the losses and damages resulting from climate change – such as shifting of fish stocks and degrading coral reef...

29 Jul 2024

Will ‘loss and damage’ climate funding reach ocean communities?

News / Water

Fisherfolk evicted from Phnom Penh’s lakes by Cambodia’s crony industrialists

...flood modelling could enhance Phnom Penh’s flood prevention and mitigation strategies, he said. “The government could produce something that meaningfully looks at flooding, if they actually kind of re...

12 Oct 2022

Fisherfolk evicted from Phnom Penh’s lakes by Cambodia’s crony industrialists

News / Carbon & Climate

Global warming of 2C could ‘double’ flooding costs in China compared to 1.5C

...floods, rising to $70bn (£57bn) for “mild” floods that would affect more of the country. At 2C, these projected costs approximately double, the authors say. Flooding would have the largest impact for ...

3 Aug 2022

Global warming of 2C could ‘double’ flooding costs in China compared to 1.5C

News / Carbon & Climate

Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’

...floodwaters of the River Thames are about 30 centimetres from my kitchen door and slowly rising. On the radio, a representative of the UK Met Office has just explained that although this is the kind o...

29 Nov 2024

Q&A: The evolving science of ‘extreme weather attribution’

News / Water

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

...flooding and droughts they cause - and for the future of Southeast Asia's longest river, which is now being shaped by powerful state-backed corporations. Local communities and campaigners say their co...

21 Mar 2023

China's Mekong dams turn Thai fishing villages into 'ghost towns'

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

...floods and other extreme weather events. Both weather and climate forecasts have become very reliable in recent years, benefiting from vast amounts of data from Earth-orbiting satellites and enormous ...

31 Jul 2023

4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters

News / Cities

Disaster deaths decline but damage rises on hotter planet

...flooding, storms or drought. 'Build back better' Aid agencies argue that, with budgets stretched, it makes more economic sense to invest in reducing risks for vulnerable communities than helping them ...

26 May 2023

Disaster deaths decline but damage rises on hotter planet

News / Water

Indigenous Filipinos fight plans to build a dam on their land

...flooding, Jose Dorado, an MWSS official supervising the project, told Context in an interview. The Stop Kaliwa Dam campaign, a group of environmental and Indigenous groups, said at least 5,000 tribesp...

30 Mar 2023

Indigenous Filipinos fight plans to build a dam on their land

News / Water

Dengue surges in waterlogged Pakistan in wake of floods

...floodwater. “The fact that thousands upon thousands of displaced people in our country are sleeping under the open sky, near huge swathes of stagnant water, is frightening,” Akif said. The worst f...

27 Sep 2022

Dengue surges in waterlogged Pakistan in wake of floods

News / Water

Indonesia banks on dams to tackle water crisis—but at what cost?

...flooding and provide a source of low-carbon hydroelectric power. “ If this (Bener Dam project) is indeed part of climate change mitigation and adaptation (efforts), how can the government ensure soci...

6 Mar 2023

Indonesia banks on dams to tackle water crisis—but at what cost?

News / Food & Agriculture

How does climate change affect food security?

...floodwater and store it for dry times, to adopting new climate-smart seeds and bringing back hardy traditional crops. But some challenges - such as more frequent and extreme heatwaves that can make it...

11 Dec 2023

How does climate change affect food security?

News / Food & Agriculture

Typhoon-battered Philippine town turns to agroecology, agroforestry for food security

...floodwater, especially during the storm and monsoon season. “The dam will flood our farmlands, a huge amount of water will be captured, that’s why, as women, we see it as an imminent danger,” says Naz...

19 May 2023

Typhoon-battered Philippine town turns to agroecology, agroforestry for food security

News / Policy & Finance

Credit rating methods are failing to give investors early warning of climate risks: study

...flood that damages a varying proportion of the company’s facilities could lead to a change in credit rating. So if a flood damages 75 per cent of the company’s facilities, the rating could be downgrad...

17 Mar 2023

Credit rating methods are failing to give investors early warning of climate risks: study

News / Food & Agriculture

A warmer, wetter climate challenges a Chinese eco-farm

...flooding. Temperatures in the region rose by 1C over the latter half of the 20th century, alongside a notable increase in rainfall between 1961 and 2018, with a significant change seen during the 1990...

16 Mar 2023

A warmer, wetter climate challenges a Chinese eco-farm

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?

But, in 2021, a devastating wildfire – fuelled by an unprecedented heatwave sweeping much of the Pacific north-west – destroyed nearly all of its houses and buildings, killing two of its 250 residents...

30 Aug 2024

Explainer: Why is climate change causing ‘record-shattering’ extreme heat?

News / Carbon & Climate

Is the IPCC about to get its first woman climate science chief?

...floods. The IPCC, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its work, will meet in Nairobi from July 25-28 to choose a chair from four eminent scientists - two women and two men, all aged over 60 - who...

26 Jul 2023

Is the IPCC about to get its first woman climate science chief?

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