As extreme rainfall increases as a result of climate change, Colombo is moving to keep itself above the floodwater tide. COLOMBO, March 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When heavy rain…
MEXICO CITY, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Storms, floods and other extreme weather events are hitting cities much harder than scientists have predicted, said the head of a global…
BARCELONA, Jan 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As drought-hit Cape Town faces the prospect of its taps running dry as soon as April, it is joining a project to work…
LONDON, Jan 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Caribbean island of Dominica, still reeling from Hurricane Maria last September, is on the “frontline of the war on climate change” and…
KATHMANDU, Jan 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nepali farmer Bhoj Raj Paudel had just left home to visit his parents when a hill above it collapsed, destroying his ranch and…
ROME, Jan 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major insurance scheme launched on Thursday aims to help up to 4 million poor people in Africa and Asia rebuild their lives…
CHENNAI, India, Jan 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Efforts to bolster Indian cities against climate change and make them greener must include citizens who are being hit hard by rising…
ROME, Jan 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unless countries urgently boost their flood defences, millions more people will be at risk from river flooding in the next 20 years as…
JAKARTA, Dec 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Whenever floods hit her one-room shack in northern Jakarta, Irma Susanti hangs her most precious furniture – a bed and a table –…
SUVA, Dec 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On a muddy beach, under the glaring Fijian sun, villagers living on the banks of Laucala Bay in the capital of Suva carefully…
NEW YORK, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Almost 14,000 archaeological sites and national monuments in the United States could be lost by the year 2100 as seas rise due…
BARCELONA, Nov 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From protecting coastal slum dwellers on Pacific islands against floods to helping poor farmers keep up harvests battered by drought in Africa, a…
A $125 million contribution from Germany aims to help provide climate insurance for 400 million poor people. BONN, Germany, Nov 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Germany on Tuesday pledged $125…
BONN, Germany, Nov 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When torrential rains drench his small farm in St. Lucia, Walter Edwin’s bees die. That’s happening more often as a result of…
As U.N. climate negotiations start Monday in Bonn, disasters show the need for a hike in ambition, experts say. BONN, Nov 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – With hurricanes, floods and…
FREETOWN, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Augustine Deen, a 31-year-old officer with the Sierra Leone Police Force, was on night duty at his post in Freetown, counting down the…
