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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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Environment

Florida’s authorities want to wish climate change away

Americans excel at denial. Take climate change. There?s overwhelming scientific evidence that human activity has accelerated climate change. But a staggering 52% of the pop...

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Environment

Environmental damage in Sundarbans cost a fortune: World Bank

Environmental damage in the climate change-hit islands of Sundarbans is costing India Rs 1,290 crore each year, estimates a latest World Bank report. The cost of environmen...

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Environment

Extreme Weather Displaces Far More People Than War - And It's Getting Worse

Experts warned on Thursday that governments need to prepare themselves for a growing and often overwhelming influx of migrants. The displaced won't be fleeing the horrors o...

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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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Bollywood

Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma auction costumes to raise funds for charity

Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma who will be seen together in upcoming film, ‘Bombay Velvet’, have auctioned their costumes in order to raise f...

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