Flood risk, warning and protection
The silting of rivers and streams leads to problems for fish, mussels, and other aquatic organisms because their habitats disappear. However, not only intensive agriculture and erosion are destroying these…
Spring and summer 2017 have been among the wettest on record in eastern North America. And the world is watching Houston this week, where the remains of Hurricane Harvey have…
TORONTO, Sept 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cities should use subsidies and taxes to get homeowners to protect themselves from climate change, experts said, as millions have been displaced by…
BANGKOK, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indonesia’s bustling capital, Jakarta, is sinking faster than any other city in the world. But an ambitious plan to build a giant wall…
Sierra Leone is still reeling from the effects of a mudslide that killed nearly 1 000 people, left hundreds missing and rendered thousands homeless. After about five hours of heavy…
In areas where trash pickup is challenging and accumulations of rubbish lead to flooding, a homegrown collection system is cutting risks. YAOUNDE, Sept 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When frequent…
A series of explosions at a chemical plant in Texas following severe flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey highlight the risk of extreme weather-related industrial accidents and the urgent need to…
TEPIC, Mexico, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Expect more images of flood evacuees scrambling into rescue boats with their wet pets and possessions unless cities seize the chance to…
MUMBAI, India, Sept 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The western Indian state of Gujarat will move 15 villages that were affected by floods this year to higher ground, officials said,…
Asian cities are struggling to accommodate rapid urban migration, and development is encroaching on flood-prone areas. Recent flooding in Mumbai was blamed in part on unregulated development of wetlands, while…
Hurricane Harvey has taught us many lessons, but the most valuable may be the oldest lesson of all, one we humans have been learning – and forgetting – since the…
Devastating floods in Nepal have sparked regional tension, with Nepali politicians and media outlets claiming that Indian infrastructure along their shared border has left Nepal vulnerable. In a visit last…
As the storm that was hurricane Harvey deluged the areas around Houston, Texas, large parts of northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh also experienced heavy rains. And the city of Mumbai…
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…
“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…
A nation “once again… gripped by grief”. This was how Ernest Bai Koroma, president of Sierra Leone, described the effects of the mudslide that devastated Regent, on the outskirts of…
