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Getting disaster resilience right

Last year, Asia Pacific suffered 6,000 fatalities and economic losses of almost US$60 billion due to natural disasters. UNESCAP executive secretary Shamshad Akhtar outlines...

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Environment

India’s “smart cities” would be stupid without disaster strategy

After Cyclone Hudhud pounded India?s southern port city of Visakhapatnam last October, snapping bridges, swamping farmland and wrecking fishing boats, many breathed a sigh ...

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Hollywood

Madonna calls for charity donations for Malawi flooding victims

Pop superstar Madonna has urged fans to donate money to help victims of the deadly floods which have swept through Malawi over the past week. The Material Girl hitmaker, wh...

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Environment

Five ways to achieve climate justice Helena Kennedy

We are learning to see climate injustice. We see it in the distressing stories of lives destroyed, epic droughts, floods and typhoons, and families and whole peoples uproot...

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Environment

We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal

Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable ? all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out ...

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Environment

Communities Find Solutions to Tackling Climate Change in Flood Hit Areas in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable countries to flooding and climate change impacts. Innovative community-driven adaptations are building climate change resiliency. Ar...

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Environment

Climate change: India to pay dearly, says Royal Society

Warning that floods like the ones which ravaged Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Odisha are imminent between now and 2090, a report of The Royal Society, London, has suggested effe...

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Environment

Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists

But ?geoengineers? say urgent nature of climate change means research must continue into controversial technology to combat rising temperatures Fighting global warming by r...

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Bollywood

‘Hum Hain… Umeed-e-Kashmir’ concert: Aamir Khan, Anupam Kher, Farhan Akhtar come together to offer relief to Kashmir flood victims

Many suffered property losses from deadly flooding in Kashmir. Many lost their family members. And many starved for days. In an attempt to offer monetary assistance to the ...

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Environment

US east coast cities face frequent flooding due to climate change

From Miami to Washington DC, towns and cities on America?s east coast could see triple the number of tidal floods by 2030 as sea levels rise, say researchers Dozens of Amer...

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