BARCELONA, Oct 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Disaster-prone developing nations, including Bangladesh and Indonesia, are exposed to crippling losses when storms, floods or earthquakes strike because they suffer from a…
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When flash floods tore through Ellicott City, Maryland, this spring, Governor Larry Hogan called it a “once-every-1,000-year” event – even though it was…
LONDON, Oct 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Last-ditch efforts to hold climate change to the most ambitious target set by governments will likely require using every available technique rather than…
LONDON, Oct 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Many more people – besides the world’s poorest – will face sweltering heatwaves, more extreme rainfall, shrinking harvests and worsening water shortages unless…
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The destruction of crops by a powerful typhoon will push people in the Philippines deeper into poverty and prolong recovery efforts, aid…
STOCKHOLM, Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they need to maintain themselves, raising the risk of worsening…
TEPIC, Mexico, Sept 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Severe flooding on the Amazon has increased amid changing weather patterns, and is harming the health and incomes of people living along…
The risks of tidal flooding are worsening across much of Britain – and that is leading to more protective barriers being put in place, by Claudio Accheri and Laurie Goering…
Faced with mounting costs from climate-linked disasters, poorer nations need help quickly, activists say at Bangkok negotiations, writes Rina Chandran for Thomson Reuters Foundation. BANGKOK, Sept 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
PHNOM PENH, Aug 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of people in Laos, whose homes were swept away when a dam burst, are sheltering in areas contaminated by landmines, humanitarians…
BADSWAT, Pakistan, Aug 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When a glacial lake burst in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan province in July, Sher Baz watched helplessly as the waters swept away his…
LONDON, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Be it by flood, drought or hurricane, communities at risk of climate displacement have won vital protection after their plight was for the…
KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladeshi cities have signed up en masse to a U.N. campaign to develop local action plans and improve infrastructure to prepare for…
NAIROBI, July 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of survivors of Kenya’s worst floods in recent years are living on the brink with barely enough food to eat…
PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pacific island nations are some of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, yet only a handful have signed up to an insurance scheme…
Costal river deltas are important hotspots of global change and, being highly populated, are ecologically and economically important hubs. Understanding the challenges faced by these unique landscapes and its inhabitants…
