One World – One Environment – One Network
Green infrastructure, including features such as rain barrels, green roofs, rain gardens, and on-site water treatment, can provide affordable and environmentally sound ways to manage heavy rainfall. Green infrastructure is challenging to maintain, because...
Landscapers have planted Asia’s largest urban rooftop farm atop one of Thailand’s oldest universities. The 7,000-square-meter green space can help feed people and even mitigate the effects of climate change, such as flooding. Thammasat...
Scientists are sounding the alarm bell after new research reveals that Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s. If it remains at this rate, 100 million will be exposed to...
Two thirds of cities around the world are already noticing the damaging effects of climate change, but less than half have developed long-term plans to deal with those threats, finds a new report. Environmental...
A new study from the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich has found that 77% of major cities around the world will experience a climate in 2050 that is closer to that of another existing...
Climate change could wipe out small linguistic communities located on islands and coastlines vulnerable to hurricanes and sea level rise, warns Anastasia Riehl of Queen’s University. Many of us are by now familiar with...
A modular housing project made of bamboo that captures rainwater, reduces heat gain and prevents flooding has won an international design competition. Earl Patrick Forlales, a 23-year-old from Manila, has won the Royal Institution...
A forthcoming study from McGill University suggests that developers and planning authorities involved in building over one hundred new cities around the world are doing very little to make their projects resilient to rising...
Billions of people in thousands of cities around the world will be at risk from climate-related heatwaves, drought, flooding, food shortages, blackouts and social inequality by mid-century, finds new research. The report The Future...
Climate change will alter our living conditions, especially in densely populated cities. Trees and green areas can have a cooling effect and protect against flooding. How can green infrastructure be taken into account in...
Plants could be the key to regulating extreme weather forecasts, as a new study demonstrates the importance of vegetation in responding to rising C02 levels. Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydrologic cycle...
European cities face increasing heatwaves, drought conditions and river flooding, a landmark study has forecast. Up to 85 per cent of UK cities with a river could face more frequent flooding. Research has for the...
Climate-related extreme weather events like the hurricane trio of Harvey, Irma and Maria or the severe flooding in South Asia have cost the insurance industry a record amount in 2017. The insurance industry is...
Not long after President Donald Trump appointed climate change deniers to the country’s highest posts was the country hit by the strongest hurricane ever. Even the Republican mayor of Miami finds himself at odds...
Houston was one of the fastest growing cities in the US thanks to its liberal building regulations. But heavy, once-unprecedented storms are set to occur more frequently – and claim more victims. John Dyer...
By the end of the century, up to 152,000 Europeans could die every year as a result of weather extremes, finds a new study. Extreme heat waves will become unavoidable if greenhouse gas emissions...
Scientists have found strong evidence that human-induced climate change increased the severity of heat waves that hit India, Pakistan, Europe, East Africa, East Asia and Australia in 2015, helping to make it the warmest...
A new investigation has found that Europe’s bioenergy plants are burning whole trees from protected forests to meet the EU’s ambitious bioenergy targets. Under current legislation, bioenergy producers do not have to show that...
Over 90 per cent of proposed hydroelectric projects in Canada could expose local indigenous communities to high levels of neurotoxins, according to Harvard University researchers. The Harvard University researchers found that the overwhelming majority...
The effects of climate change could cause hurricanes to flood New York City’s coastline every 20 years, a new study has revealed. The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported that water could surge by almost three...
