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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

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 / Policy & Finance

UK lawmakers to count environmental cost of mass tourism

...floods of visitors are damaging a host of hot spots, said the Environmental Audit Committee, which scrutinises the impact of government policy on the environment. From queues up Everest to cruisers cr...

19 Jul 2019

UK lawmakers to count environmental cost of mass tourism

Videos / Cities

Why emerging Asia is the hub of climate-smart urban development

...floods, and other impacts of climate change. About four out of every five people impacted by sea-level rise by 2050 will live in Asia. Building cities that “work”—inclusive, safe, resilient, and susta...

12 Jun 2019

Why emerging Asia is the hub of climate-smart urban development

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why criticism over the Australian bushfires might be misplaced

...floods, and hurricanes. Even if Australia had achieved net carbon neutrality in 2019, it would have suffered through the same fire season. Of course, to avert a crisis in several decades’ time, action...

13 Jan 2020

Why criticism over the Australian bushfires might be misplaced

News / Carbon & Climate

Fast Arctic melt could cost $70 trillion

...floods and so on could start to soar. The scientists report in the journal Nature Communications that if the nations of the world were to keep a promise made in Paris in 2015 to contain planetary warm...

2 May 2019

Fast Arctic melt could cost $70 trillion

News / Carbon & Climate

Australian rain proves fiercer than expected

...flooding, landslips and potentially lethal flash floods. And although engineers and city planners expected to have to deal with more stormwater, what could happen is far worse than anything they are n...

12 Aug 2018

Australian rain proves fiercer than expected

News / Carbon & Climate

Staying safe from climate risks makes financial sense, says new commission

From irrigating crops with less water to revising building codes to help new infrastructure weather floods and storms, the world needs to invest more in preparing for the accelerating impacts of clima...

17 Oct 2018

Staying safe from climate risks makes financial sense, says new commission

child receives a drink of water in Sudan

Videos / Water

What would the world be like if there was water for all?

...flooding and lack of proper wastewater management continue to hinder social and economic development. The United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for “ensuring the availablity and sustai...

21 Mar 2019

What would the world be like if there was water for all?

Opinion / Lifestyle

How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now

...flooding, mass migration, widespread homelessness. We are in a very familiar world. The “near” is depicted in a realistic way through identifiable locations, documentary-style visuals, news footage, a...

10 Dec 2019

How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now

Tacloban city in the Philippines after the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013

News / Policy & Finance

Richer nations urged to boost protection against wild weather as losses jump

...flooding. In general, however, adaptation measures in temperate zones "have been lagging behind, compared to the tropics, where people traditionally have had to cope with these kind of catastrophic ev...

14 Oct 2019

Richer nations urged to boost protection against wild weather as losses jump

News / Carbon & Climate

Whose voices are not heard in climate change journalism in China, India, Thailand and Singapore?

...floods that year. Comfort said the authors would have wanted to include more countries in the study, but digital news archives are not always available for such a long time frame. More field coverage...

19 Mar 2020

Whose voices are not heard in climate change journalism in China, India, Thailand and Singapore?

News / Waste

What China’s waste import ban has meant for the West

...flooding markets since China’s bans. Australia In 2016, Australia processed just 12 per cent of its recycled waste domestically and sent 1.25 million tonnes of waste to China. It has struggled to cope...

29 Jan 2020

What China’s waste import ban has meant for the West

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

...flooded Japan causing evacuation advisories for at least 400,000 residents. In August 2017, Nepal, Bangladesh and India endured massive flooding due to monsoon rains resulting in forced evacuations, e...

2 Apr 2019

Why Asian hospitals need to shrink their carbon footprint

News / Green Buildings

Dense, well-planned cities are part of a sustainable future, says Singapore minister

...floods and droughts and extreme sea level events—are concentrated in urban areas. Building design and construction is also critical to climate change adaptation as well as mitigation of the urban heat...

8 Nov 2019

Dense, well-planned cities are part of a sustainable future, says Singapore minister

News / Energy

Laos suspends new dams as tragedy raises wider fears

...flooding villages located 1,000 metres below. The flood zone is also very close to the border with Cambodia. Flood waters rushed from the Xe-Pian River into the Sekong River, a major tributary of the ...

13 Aug 2018

Laos suspends new dams as tragedy raises wider fears

News / Food & Agriculture

Flies and fungi: Climate change could make food less safe, experts warn

...flooding, is expected to reduce crop yields, limiting food supplies—and making hungry communities more likely to eat contaminated food, experts say. "If climate change brings extreme changes in weathe...

15 Feb 2019

Flies and fungi: Climate change could make food less safe, experts warn

News / Water

Global warming to increase water in South Asian rivers

...flood-resilient farming systems, flood-tolerant crop varieties and infrastructure as well as collaboration among South Asian countries for joint river basin management and early flood-warning systems ...

30 Aug 2018

Global warming to increase water in South Asian rivers

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Opinion / Carbon & Climate

A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10

...floods killing around 600,000 livestock. Extreme drought and extreme heat So what exactly happened in Australia in 2019 to cause such widespread environmental damage? There were several causes. Acr...

31 Mar 2020

A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate passport, anyone?

...floods and changes in rainfall patterns. Already, people are being forced to move. “Innovative solutions, such as climate passports, are needed to enable people to migrate with dignity.” “ Countries ...

17 Dec 2018

Climate passport, anyone?

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