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Twin crises of heat and floods expose neglect in India and Bangladesh

...floods, but have also sometimes channelled the rivers to flood new areas. Embankments meant to prevent flooding have instead prevented the gradual spread of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries into th...

29 May 2022

Twin crises of heat and floods expose neglect in India and Bangladesh

News / Cities

Stalled monsoon behind devastating floods in northeast India and Bangladesh

...flooding. The latest flashpoints have been in northeast India and Bangladesh, where massive floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of residents and destroyed their livelihoods. Between June 11 an...

8 Jul 2022

Stalled monsoon behind devastating floods in northeast India and Bangladesh

Opinion / Cities

Sponge cities beating urban heat in China

...flooding. A sponge city, according to Chinese guidelines, is one that has transformed hard surfaces, such as roads and pavements, into permeable surfaces that can absorb, seep, purify and store water...

19 Jul 2022

Sponge cities beating urban heat in China

News / Carbon & Climate

Monsoon rainfall increases in Kashmir, raising flood fears

...flood in September 2014. After an unusually high level of rainfall, the fact that buildings had been built on flood overflow channels and floodplains led to a catastrophe, resulting in more than 190 d...

2 Jun 2022

Monsoon rainfall increases in Kashmir, raising flood fears

News / Food & Agriculture

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan threatens major food crisis

...floods and landslides, and longer dry seasons resulting in droughts. These impacts have been further exacerbated under the Taliban regime, which lacks the resources and expertise required to deal with...

28 Jun 2023

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan threatens major food crisis

News / Food & Agriculture

Plastic from greenhouse boom blights Vietnam’s vegetable basket

...flooding the city’s drainage system. “We are a mountain city. We aren’t supposed to have floods, but at the end of the day we have floods, very heavy floods that even killed people,” Khuyên says. In...

4 Jul 2022

Plastic from greenhouse boom blights Vietnam’s vegetable basket

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In Central Philippines, traditional fisherfolk struggle to protect a river oasis from tides of climate change

...floods and landslides due to the river overflowing amid heavier rainfall and more frequent typhoons, according to the geohazard assessment of the Philippine Mines and Geosciences Bureau. “It is enviro...

23 Nov 2022

In Central Philippines, traditional fisherfolk struggle to protect a river oasis from tides of climate change

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Sex trafficking plagues Filipino city where typhoon wrought havoc

Social worker Carmela Bastes had dedicated years of her career to helping catch sex traffickers and supporting their victims in the Filipino city of Tacloban. Then, a decade ago, Typhoon Haiyan struc...

6 Nov 2023

Sex trafficking plagues Filipino city where typhoon wrought havoc

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Recommendations galore, but are they benefitting Himalayan wetlands?

...flood spill channel of the Hokersar Wetland in an apparent effort to solve the problem of flooding in Srinagar after the devastation of 2014. All that happened was that a large part of the Ramsar-desi...

18 Aug 2022

Recommendations galore, but are they benefitting Himalayan wetlands?

Press Releases / Binnies

Binnies looks ahead to a sustainable water future

Binnies, an RSK Group company providing sustainable and resilient water, wastewater and flood resilience solutions, today celebrates its 100th year of water excellence in Singapore. As they look...

8 Dec 2022

Binnies looks ahead to a sustainable water future

News / Water

Climate change ‘bait and switch’ threatens sharks and rays

...flooding and stronger cyclones and hurricanes. “If you think about equivalent on land, that might be fires being fuelled by more intense wind. It takes an existing natural phenomenon and basically sup...

17 Apr 2024

Climate change ‘bait and switch’ threatens sharks and rays

News / Corporate Responsibility

Resilience-building, rehabilitation key to longevity of 40-year-old Tongonan geothermal plant

Engineer Teodulfo Troyo recalls being among the last to be bused out of the Tongonan geothermal plant complex a day before Typhoon Yolanda – known internationally as Haiyan – made landfall late in 201...

17 Jan 2024

Resilience-building, rehabilitation key to longevity of 40-year-old Tongonan geothermal plant

News / Policy & Finance

No new sustainability measures in Singapore's 2023 budget

...flood protection fund – no additional sustainability-related measures were announced in Wong’s annual speech to Parliament. This was contrary to the expectations of consulting firms like Deloitte, EY,...

17 Feb 2023

No new sustainability measures in Singapore's 2023 budget

News / Carbon & Climate

'Surprise' urban Malaysia floods drive pleas for climate action

...flooding in mid-December and early January across Malaysia. "We knew that it was raining constantly and we expected a flood - but not to that extent," the 22-year-old told the Thomson Reuters Foundati...

4 May 2022

'Surprise' urban Malaysia floods drive pleas for climate action

News / Water

World’s largest dams to lose ‘disturbing’ 25 per cent of storage capacity by 2050

...flooding caused by typhoons, as well as local earthquakes. The UN study did not account for the effect of climate change on sedimentation rates. A separate research paper last year, which Li co-author...

12 Jan 2023

World’s largest dams to lose ‘disturbing’ 25 per cent of storage capacity by 2050

Opinion / Policy & Finance

To tackle the climate crisis, the Green Climate Fund needs serious money

Confronting the climate crisis requires a coordinated global response, with funding playing a pivotal role. Within the complex landscape of institutions delivering climate finance, the Green Climate ...

26 Oct 2023

To tackle the climate crisis, the Green Climate Fund needs serious money

News / Policy & Finance

‘Global surge’ in investment needed to adapt to climate change, warns UN

...floods and storms finds that more than 84 per cent of countries have at least one strategy, law or policy related to adaptation – an increase of 5 per cent from last year. Those that do not include Bo...

8 Nov 2022

‘Global surge’ in investment needed to adapt to climate change, warns UN

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Women bear the brunt of Asia's climate failures

...floods and heatwaves have become more frequent and intense, directly impeding crop growth, causing soil degradation and jeopardising agrifood systems, including farming, trading, entrepreneurship, liv...

29 Jan 2024

Women bear the brunt of Asia's climate failures

News / Cities

Why did the Yunnan elephants trek so far north?

...flooding, forest fires, and invasive species – by changing their own patterns of activity. Climate change, meanwhile, can increase the frequency of such phenomena. Climate change and protections for a...

4 Sep 2023

Why did the Yunnan elephants trek so far north?

News / Carbon & Climate

What is COP27, and why is it so important?

...floods in Pakistan have affected at least 33 million people and caused damage worth at least USD 10 billion. Earlier this year, massive floods displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of th...

6 Oct 2022

What is COP27, and why is it so important?

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