SRINAGAR, India, Aug 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A plan for the development of Srinagar city to 2035, put together by the government of Indian-administered Kashmir, ignores lessons from the…
Drones could plant trees 10 times faster and cut costs by half, writes Thin Lei Win for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. BANGKOK, Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fast-dwindling mangroves…
Dozens of houses were engulfed by mud when a mountainside collapsed in the town of Regent, on the edge of Freetown. DAKAR, Aug 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Donor pledges…
“Freetown and other precarious cities need safer urban planning and land use initiatives” DAKAR – A mudslide which devastated Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown this week, killing about 400 people and…
BARCELONA, Aug 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From protecting coastal towns against storms and rising seas, to helping poor farmers grow new crops, projects that equip people to overcome disasters…
NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of undocumented Chakma refugees in India’s remote northeast desperately need basic aid such as shelter, food and clean water…
LONDON, Aug 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cities planning for weather disasters, pandemics or civil unrest need to take steps to support local farmers and protect key transport routes so…
NEW DELHI, July 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Authorities across India are taking steps to help millions of people hit by floods and to prepare for future disasters, Prime Minister…
“A lot of the damage now comes from extreme precipitation. So that translates into floods, landslides, loss of life, loss of livelihoods” BOGOTA, July 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As…
MIAMI, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In low-lying Miami, flooding from rising sea level is as much a part of everyday life as mosquitoes and Cuban coffee. Pretty much…
COLOMBO, July 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – During Sri Lanka’s May floods, rescue crews in Kiriella, a small town in Rathnapura District, spotted a remarkable sight. A middle-aged woman, trudging…
BANGKOK, July 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) outlines the dramatic changes Asia-Pacific…
ROME, July 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – To see the frontline of climate change, Tommy Remengesau, President of Palau, a small island nation in the Pacific, has to look no…
ROME, June 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A severe drought followed by floods has slashed agricultural production in Sri Lanka, leaving some 900,000 people facing food insecurity, the United Nations…
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Russia is seeing stronger climate change impacts, from deadly storms in Moscow to river flooding in the country’s south, but efforts…
Persistent rains and inaccessible roads were hampering efforts to airdrop and distribute aid in some areas, by Shihar Aneez and Nita Bhalla COLOMBO/NEW DELHI, May 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) –…
