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Green paradise or data-stealing dystopia? Toronto smart city sparks debate

...flood-resistant green spaces to heated bike paths, the ideas underpinning Sidewalk Labs' proposed project represent the "future of sustainable development", said a spokeswoman for the Alphabet Inc-own...

12 Mar 2019

Green paradise or data-stealing dystopia? Toronto smart city sparks debate

News / Policy & Finance

World's largest rice gene bank secures funding to fight climate change

...flooding, which are already threatening production in countries like India, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. Morell said that a main focus is developing varieties that are more r...

16 Oct 2018

World's largest rice gene bank secures funding to fight climate change

News / Carbon & Climate

Local fears grow over Chinese projects in Sri Lanka

...flooded during high monsoon rains. One of the lasting images of the floods was the southern exit of the highway with its semi-circular arch half submerged. “We have never experienced any such thing in...

30 Nov 2018

Local fears grow over Chinese projects in Sri Lanka

Opinion / Cities

Kerala’s monsoon: Lessons from recent floods in India

...floods and landslides, caused by a combination of tree felling on steep hillslopes and heavy rainfall. Airports built on water bodies The flooding of the Kochi airport is another example of poor plann...

27 Aug 2018

Kerala’s monsoon: Lessons from recent floods in India

Opinion / None

A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped climate action

...flood communities, change watersheds and escalate violence against women through work camps filled with men. Inuit and Cree communities in Labrador have resisted the Muskrat Falls hydro project. The ...

20 Dec 2019

A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate models predict bigger heat rise ahead

...floods and extreme weather, much of it made more destructive by rising seas. Beyond Paris, a new generation of about 30 models known collectively as CMIP6 − including the two revealed by France − will...

18 Sep 2019

Climate models predict bigger heat rise ahead

News / Water

The invisible water shortage in Hebei’s capital

...flooding a whole field. Others flout the rules by piping free water directly from public wells. Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs, an environmental non-profit, th...

19 Dec 2019

The invisible water shortage in Hebei’s capital

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Not enough climate action in stimulus plans

...flooding. Policymakers cannot ignore science. They must grapple with the importance of building back better after Covid-19 while also redesigning our societies to be cleaner, safer and more equitable....

18 Sep 2020

Not enough climate action in stimulus plans

Opinion / Energy

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

...floods. Climate change is expected to increase flood disaster and frequency, while hydropower is seen as a ‘clean energy’ solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. D...

14 Sep 2018

How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

News / Policy & Finance

Shunned by investors, poorer nations seek to climate-proof growth

...floods cut crop harvests and storms tear up buildings and power lines, countries vulnerable to climate change - from Bangladesh to Kenya and Guatemala - have proposed new ways to access cheaper financ...

15 Apr 2019

Shunned by investors, poorer nations seek to climate-proof growth

Opinion / Water

Water can exacerbate inequality—or it can help solve it

...flooding, and dirty water and those with little capacity to do so is also widening, with the potential to deteriorate as climate change makes water supply less predictable and extreme weather more com...

25 Mar 2019

Water can exacerbate inequality—or it can help solve it

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

How can the United Kingdom get this year’s climate negotiations back on track?

...floods with thousands of homes underwater. He could announce his intention to insist that Boris Johnson convene regular COBRA meetings so people know this government is taking the consequences of clim...

25 Feb 2020

How can the United Kingdom get this year’s climate negotiations back on track?

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

As the oceans rise, so do your risks of breast cancer

...Flooding, as a result of climate change, can move contaminants to places where greater exposure by humans is possible. Here Suzanne Diamond walks through floodwaters from Lac-Saint-Pierre in Yamachich...

17 Jan 2019

As the oceans rise, so do your risks of breast cancer

Videos / Carbon & Climate

Lawyers file complaint against BP for misleading 'greenwash' in new ad campaign

...flooding in the UK, to wildfires in the United States (US) and Australia. Meanwhile BP is doubling down on business as usual, running its biggest ad campaign since the Deepwater Horizon disaster to pu...

5 Dec 2019

Lawyers file complaint against BP for misleading 'greenwash' in new ad campaign

The coastline of Sulawesi, Indonesia, where languages and cultures are threatened by climate change. Anastasia Riehl,

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The impact of climate change on language loss

...flooded market in Sulawesi. Anastasia Riehl, Author provided Loss of language, loss of data, identity When a language is lost, the result can be a loss of identity, one that may impact the health an...

27 Nov 2018

The impact of climate change on language loss

News / Cities

With more data, Asia Pacific can build more resilient cities

...flood risk and put together a flood management strategy for the Thai capital, according to a recent report by 100 Resilient Cities. By analysing Bangkok's infrastructure, land use and land elevation, ...

11 Sep 2018

With more data, Asia Pacific can build more resilient cities

News / Carbon & Climate

Earth nears irreversible tipping points

...flooding. Timescale controlled The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate, and once past a critical threshold could lose enough water to raise sea levels by seven metres. Even a 1.5°C ...

29 Nov 2019

Earth nears irreversible tipping points

News / Carbon & Climate

Flooded internet is possible by 2035

US engineers have identified a problem nobody had ever expected to confront so soon: the approach of the flooded internet, caused by worldwide sea level rise. Within 15 years seawater could be lapping...

23 Jul 2018

Flooded internet is possible by 2035

News / Carbon & Climate

What's behind this summer's extreme weather?

...floods kill hundreds, destroying vast swathes of agricultural land and livelihoods Japan Flooding and landslides from heavy rains, 222 fatalities Spain A mini-tsunami hits the coastline off Majorca an...

31 Jul 2018

What's behind this summer's extreme weather?

News / Carbon & Climate

Southeast Asia faces harsher dry seasons as El Niño effects worsen, warn climate scientists

Southeast Asia will experience worsening dry and hot weather that will lead to severe droughts and heatwaves as global temperatures rise, according to a lead author of the United Nation’s Intergovernm...

28 Sep 2019

Southeast Asia faces harsher dry seasons as El Niño effects worsen, warn climate scientists

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