Severe Storms & Flooding
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AfricaAustraliaCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Security & WarMiddle EastSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
Study Predicts End of Civilization by 2050 if Global Warming Hits 3.0°C
An alarming new study by Australia’s Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration is pointing to the “high likelihood of human civilization coming to an ... -
AsiaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureSevere Storms & Flooding
Japan’s 2018 Killer Heat Wave Was ‘Essentially Impossible’ Without Climate Change
Japan’s heat wave in July 2018 could not have happened without climate change. -
Scientists Consider Possible Climate Connection to Severe Midwest U.S. Tornado Season
With the American Midwest looking like assembly line central for tornadoes this spring, many are wondering whether a toll of 1,000 twisters and counting ... -
Climate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Louisiana Plans for Big Population Movements as Gulf Coast Washes Away
Responding to rising seas and their attendant storm surges, Louisiana has developed a 1,500-page plan to keep its citizens as safe as possible under ... -
AfricaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationOpinion & AnalysisSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
100 Resilient Cities Closure Shows Limits of Climate Philanthropy
In the spring of 2013, the Rockefeller Foundation—the hundred-year-old charitable organization started by Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller—launched an ambitious program to help ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCollateral DamageFood SecurityHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Nebraska Flooding Points to Spill Risk from Keystone XL
The “bomb cyclone”-driven flooding across the midwestern United States has become the latest in a litany of arguments against construction of the US$8-billion Keystone ... -
AfricaBiodiversity & HabitatChinaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFood SecurityIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingSoil & Natural SequestrationSouth & Central AmericaSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Soil Health Emerges as Critical Climate Mitigation Tool as ‘Carbon Farming’ Takes Hold
The urgent need to restore the health of the world’s agricultural soils—for the sake of the food supply, and as a critical tool in ... -
‘Meticulous’ Disaster Planning Means Massive Destruction But Low Death Toll After Cyclone Hits India, Bangladesh
People on India’s eastern coast were counting themselves lucky over the weekend after Cyclone Fani brought winds of up to 120 miles (200 kilometres) ... -
BuildingsCanadaCitiesFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetySevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
The ‘What Were They Thinking’ Moment: How Was St-Marthe Built on a Lake Bed?
In the aftermath of last month’s catastrophic flooding in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le Lac, on the shore of Lake of Two Mountains outside Montreal, some local planners ...
