These disasters raised questions about the effectiveness of China’s climate-resilience strategy for extreme rainfall, the “sponge city” initiative launched nationwide in 2015. Experts say that the basic idea – making …
California has had drought years and wet years, several “years of the woman” and the last few years may well have been called “years of housing increases,” at least in …
Trees block dust that billows from an unpaved road in Makueni, Kenya.Courtesy of Makueni County In some cases, roads provide benefits and costs simultaneously. According to Yakami, new Nepalese roads …
On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D’Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive …
Compared to urban dwellers, rural Canadians are more vulnerable to climate change in many ways and face extra challenges to adaptation, says a new federal government report. The “Canada in a …
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The Philippines has so far endured fewer storms in 2023 than in any of the past 25 years and now faces potentially the worst drought in decades, officials said. The …
The Ottawa Senators are turning to the man who steered them to their first playoff berth in an effort to snap their longest playoff drought. The team has hired Jacques …
From disappearing salmon stocks and caribou herds to wildfires and a changing landscape, Indigenous leaders are sharing their impressions at the UN climate summit of how a warming planet is …
“Never in my 37 years have I seen anything like this happen to our stream,” he said. Community leader Raimundo Leite de Souza, 37, stands next to a well next …