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4 pressing environmental issues the next Philippine president should prioritise

...floods and landslides last week in the Visayas island group, leaving at least 172 dead. It came four months after super typhoon Rai devastated swaths of the country, which resulted in 400 fatalities a...

21 Apr 2022

4 pressing environmental issues the next Philippine president should prioritise

News / Carbon & Climate

Are Bhutan’s monsoon landslides becoming more deadly?

...flooding killed six people in 2019 and four in 2020. The victims – seven women and three men – had been camped with 33 other people from Lungo village at a place called Ri-Drupzhi in Laya Gewog, Gasa ...

15 Jul 2021

Are Bhutan’s monsoon landslides becoming more deadly?

Podcasts / Food & Agriculture

Food crisis: how to build resilient supply chains in Asia

...flooding in the United States, South Korea and Malaysia have affected global food production hubs, prompting calls to produce more food locally, curb food waste and increase efforts to mitigate climat...

16 Aug 2022

Food crisis: how to build resilient supply chains in Asia

News / Cities

Rising salinity threatens ‘the wealth of the world’ in Bangladesh

"There must be something wrong with the saltwater,” ‍says Mohammad Helal Uddin, the khatib of the Sixty Dome Mosque, part of the Mosque City of Bagerhat, a Unesco world heritage site on Bangladesh’s s...

4 Aug 2022

Rising salinity threatens ‘the wealth of the world’ in Bangladesh

News / Policy & Finance

COP26: Rifts remain over finance for adaptation, loss and damage

US$300 billion a year by 2030, and US$500 billion by 2050. Those are the estimated annual costs for developing countries to adapt to increased floods, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather. Th...

15 Nov 2021

COP26: Rifts remain over finance for adaptation, loss and damage

News / Carbon & Climate

As Singapore mulls 2050 net-zero, some advocates wonder: can we do better?

...floods. Teng Chu Yu, 23, a member of environmental group LepakInSG, which runs events focused on climate and biodiversity, said it was planning to submit feedback to the consultation that Singapore’s...

20 Sep 2022

As Singapore mulls 2050 net-zero, some advocates wonder: can we do better?

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

Mosquitoes, sun dimming, and the lives at stake

...floods are much higherin South Asian countries compared to other regions like in the United States, New Zealand, Australia andthe UK. So the concern is legitimate. People in the Global South are more ...

22 Feb 2023

Mosquitoes, sun dimming, and the lives at stake

Podcasts / Carbon & Climate

Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?

...flooding or fire? I think there is a lot we can do there, and if we work with financial institutions, we can demonstrate progress in the years to come. RSPO is holding its annual roundtable (RT) in J...

2 Nov 2023

Seeing through the haze – is palm oil still to blame?

Nandi Devi mountain in Uttarakhand Himalayas

News / Carbon & Climate

Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?

...floodwater was first noticed by residents of Raini village, which sits 3,700km above sea level, who filmed videos on their phones. The fast-flowing flood water swept away bridges, roads, homes and liv...

11 Feb 2021

Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?

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Data exposes flaws in Mekong Delta resilience plans

...flooded all the time, the AWD method includes a non-flooded period. This reduces water use and methane emissions — a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. “AWD can reduce water use by 20...

26 Jan 2022

Data exposes flaws in Mekong Delta resilience plans

News / Food & Agriculture

Iraqi farmers driven to suicide as drought steals livelihoods

...flooded paddy fields. "Before this, in al-Meshkhab we grew the best amber rice," said Brahimi's neighbour, Haidar Serhan, 45, standing by his dried-out field. "Now we cannot do anything. Everyone is l...

25 Nov 2022

Iraqi farmers driven to suicide as drought steals livelihoods

News / Cities

Can Indonesia's Muslim leaders boost public climate change action?

...flooding and rising sea levels, while rural regions often struggle to cope with forest fires and drought. Zulfira Warta, a climate project leader at WWF-Indonesia, said there was a need for more leade...

19 Aug 2022

Can Indonesia's Muslim leaders boost public climate change action?

A ship graveyard near Moynaq city in western Uzbekistan

News / Water

World Bank experts on Central Asia’s looming water crisis

...floods and mudflows, and in terms of increasing water pollution. The consequences of these changes will be many – direct and indirect, some quite predictable, and others probably quite unexpected. The...

16 Feb 2022

World Bank experts on Central Asia’s looming water crisis

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

The global hunger crisis is here

...floods, and prolonged droughts has triggered shocks to agricultural production and food availability. As temperatures rise, these shocks will become increasingly frequent and powerful. If global warmi...

24 May 2022

The global hunger crisis is here

Journalists reporting at a sustainability conference

News / Carbon & Climate

No room for gloom? Journalists debate media obsession with ‘solution’ angle for climate reporting

...floods and mass migration, outnumber solutions stories by three to one, the study of publications including The Economist, Bloomberg, Nikkei and South China Morning Post found. Lorenz added that a lar...

15 Aug 2022

No room for gloom? Journalists debate media obsession with ‘solution’ angle for climate reporting

hydropower plant on Nam Theun river in Laos PDR

News / Water

Wet-season dam operations hit Mekong ecology and communities

...flood pulse of the Mekong, are of particular importance to conservationists. Recent moves to turn the nearby area into a Special Economic Zone were met with public pushback for the little-studied ecos...

27 Aug 2021

Wet-season dam operations hit Mekong ecology and communities

Women participate in a community meeting on village reconstruction in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

News / Policy & Finance

Empowering women essential for improved climate response

...floods due to climate change may amplify the barriers to using clean cooking fuels, it says. Women make up roughly one-third of the workforce in the renewable energy sector globally, overwhelmingly in...

18 Mar 2022

Empowering women essential for improved climate response

Climate change-induced drought in Mongolia

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Today’s crises are different

...flooding and droughts, heighten the risk of infectious and water-borne diseases. Rising average temperatures and altered rainfall patterns are reducing the potential yield of staple crops (by 6 per ce...

17 Jun 2022

Today’s crises are different

News / Energy

Floating solar ready for take-off

...flooded former open-pit mines. In January, researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, published a study of the huge potential for hybrid hydro-solar power plants ...

21 May 2021

Floating solar ready for take-off

News / Carbon & Climate

COP26 summit urged to prioritise adaptation as 'climate emergency' surges

...flood defences to growing more drought-tolerant crops and relocating coastal communities - had not benefited from the same attention, resources or level of action as efforts to cut planet-heating emis...

7 Sep 2021

COP26 summit urged to prioritise adaptation as 'climate emergency' surges

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