India’s IT hub Bengaluru may need $US339 million to fix drainage, avoid flooding – report
Bengalaru, IndiaReuters India’s Bengaluru city may need nearly 28 billion rupees ($US339 million) to restore a drainage network damaged by unfettered urbanisation as repeated floods threaten to disrupt work and life in the IT hub, a report said. Traffic moves through a water-logged road following torrential rains in Bengaluru, India, on 5th September, 2022. PICTURE: […]
Haiti quake death toll surges to nearly 2,000, survivors clamor for aid
Les Cayes, HaitiReuters The preliminary death toll from the major earthquake that struck south-western Haiti last weekend surged to 1,941 on Tuesday as the search for survivors resumed after a tropical storm passed and quake-hit Haitians clamored for food, shelter and medical aid. Hospitals struggled to tend to all those injured, the official tally of […]
“This is like a nightmare”: Thousands displaced as floods hit Bangladesh Rohingya camps
Reuters Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods in refugees camps displacing thousands of Rohingya Muslims in southeastern Bangladesh this week, UN and other officials said on Friday, with further heavy rainfall expected. At least six Rohingya, including three children, died in landslides and flooding while 15 Bangladeshis were killed and more than 200,000 […]
Climate change blamed for a third of US flood losses in past three decades
Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate change has boosted the cost of flood damage caused by heavy rainfall in the United States by $7US5 billion over the last three decades, accounting for about a third of total losses, Stanford University researchers said this week. With planet-heating emissions still going up, both extreme rainfall and related losses will […]
Flood risk for one million in Phnom Penh as wetlands destroyed
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation More than one million people in Phnom Penh face the risk of increased flooding and loss of livelihoods as wetlands in the Cambodian capital are destroyed to build apartments and industries, human rights groups warned on Monday. Developments – including the ING City township – will reduce the Tompoun wetlands to […]
Cyclone kills at least 82 in India and Bangladesh, flooding lowlands
Kolkata, India/Dhaka, BangladeshReuters The most powerful cyclone to strike eastern India and Bangladesh in over a decade killed at least 82 people, officials said, as rescue teams scoured devastated coastal villages on Thursday, hampered by torn down power lines and widespread flooding. Mass evacuations before Cyclone Amphan made landfall undoubtedly saved countless lives, but the […]
Flood prevention could bring “huge” payoff as global risks rise
London, ReutersThomson Reuters Foundation Asia faces surging threats from coastal and river flooding as climate change brings more intense rainfall and rising seas – but investing now in dikes and other measures to stem risks could have big financial payoffs, researchers said on Thursday. India, for instance, could save about $US250 per $1 spent on […]
Rising homelessness to ageing population: Five challenges facing cities in 2020
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The world is seeing the biggest wave of urban growth in history with the United Nations expecting almost 70 per cent of people globally to be living in urban areas by 2050, up from 56 per cent today. The shift is creating significant challenges for cities around the world, from tackling […]
Nearly 500 US churches face climate-linked flooding threat, scientists say
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly 500 US churches built in low-lying coastal areas are in danger of flooding at least once a year by 2050 should seas continue rising amid unchecked climate change, scientists said Thursday. States with the highest levels of church attendance – including Louisiana and North Carolina – figure among […]
US CHURCHES: HOUSES OF WORSHIP IN HURRICANE FLORENCE’S PATH LOOK TO FEMA FOR A HELPING HAND
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on how a change of Federal Government policy in the US has led churches to look to official assistance in the wake of Hurricane Florence…