As rains become heavier, the city needs to do more to prevent disasters, engineers and planners say. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Last month, a torrent…
LONDON, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – England must prepare for global warming of up to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2°F) that threatens to put millions of households at risk of…
NEW YORK, April 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Deadly floods that bear the fingerprints of climate change are prompting an exodus of workers from the U.S. Midwest, the world’s biggest…
Climate change is bringing more weather extremes, and Zimbabwe this year is suffering from opposite crises at once: floods and drought HARARE, April 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As eastern…
MOCOA, Colombia March 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two years after a mudslide that killed more than 300 people in the Colombian rainforest town of Mocoa, local authorities are struggling…
DAKAR, March 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ghana plans to replace its polluting “trotro” buses and formalise waste collection in slums as part of a new plan to help its…
At least half a million people are at risk of disease as clean water runs short in the disaster zone NAIROBI, March 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At least half…
Mozambique started three days of national mourning for those killed in what has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the country’s history. NAIROBI, March 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) –…
As coastal property crumbles into encroaching seas, villagers receive plots with fish ponds on a free lease to help them stay afloat. HATIYA, Bangladesh, Jan 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) –…
NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A small Native American tribe in Louisiana whose land has nearly vanished into the sea has moved a step closer to relocating…
“We need to be thinking about everything we build in the context of mitigating climate-change impact,” says urban architect. Article by Rina Chandran for Thomson Reuters Foundation. BANGKOK, Jan 9…
For over 25 years, rising seas linked to climate change have caused repeated flooding on the small island of Kisiwa Panza, by Hannah McNeish for Thomson Reuters Foundation. KISIWA PANZA,…
Coastal communities protect themselves by planting mangrove forests along embankments, reducing damage from encroaching waves, by Moushumi Basu for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. GOSABA, India, Nov 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
ROME, Nov 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From the floating city of Venice to prehistoric rock carvings in Spain, Europe’s cultural heritage is vulnerable to floods, quakes and wildfires, and…
BARCELONA, Nov 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Africa’s rapidly expanding cities face huge threats from climate change over the next 30 years, which could bring knock-on effects such as higher…
As extreme rainfall brings more landslides, farmers are turning to bamboo to protect their land – and making an income from it, by Kagondu Njagi for Thomson Reuters Foundation. MAKOMBOKI,…
