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Engineers, architects and builders can design and construct affordable new buildings that can resist tornadoes, floods and wildfires, but do not. We have that opportunity now.
Lismore’s residents and businesses on the floodplain need to look at relocation, not rebuilding.
The collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation would profoundly alter the anatomy of the world’s oceans and climate. New research explores the consequences.
The impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will pass, but the impacts of climate change will not.
Accra has become susceptible to floods due to encroachment on wetlands.
One weather configuration has been responsible for record-breaking downpours in Australia, South America, and South Africa this year.
Some Niger Delta residents are less concerned about oil-induced hazards and risks, or floods and erosion. They are more worried about a lack of sanitation amenities.
We can’t let communities face climate change alone. We must get better at adapting to the new climate, and do it before disasters not during.
We asked six experts to nominate books that might help us avert environmental catastrophe. Here’s what they said.
Driving into floodwater is the leading cause of flood-related death. So why do people do it?
The federal election presents an opportunity to promote plans for improving national disaster governance and resilience. But the silence on these issues in political debates has been remarkable.
Disaster victims in Australia can wait months or years for insurance payouts – or can’t afford the premiums at all. As climate change worsens, we need a radical rethink.
The displacement of people and overcrowding that often results from flooding provide optimal conditions for outbreaks of respiratory and gastrointestinal illness.
Sloping ground, water and clay combined to leave devastation in its wake in Durban.
Experts in city government are missing the perspective of residents.
For the first time we’ve calculated what effect a natural disaster has on income tax revenue, finding a 5% decline through lower incomes and higher tax deduction claims.
Could South Africa’s recent flooding have been foreseen? It has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.
Notwithstanding COVID, this political term has been framed by extreme events such as the Black Summer bushfires and floods – and it will show at the ballot box.
A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.
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