Euronews

A revolutionary concept for a flood resistant ‘floating house’ has been designed by students in the UK.

As part of the $1.45 billion (€1.3 billion) project, work has started in southeast Manhattan to erect an integrated 4km system of raised parkland, floodwalls, berms and movable floodgates to create a continuous line of protection against sea-level rises.

The world is now a very different place to the one we knew several decades ago. The social, economic, technological and industrial development we have witnessed over the years has brought enormous costs in terms of vulnerabilities, interdependencies and risks.

As different as they may be, businesses, policy-makers and authorities face the same challenge: integrating the impact of climate change in their future decisions

ZTE opens 5G innovation and research center in Italy’s earthquake-hit city, L’Aquila, to test the technology as a rapid tremor alert system.

Two Japanese power companies have announced they will scrap three ageing nuclear reactors. It marks the first moves to permanently shut down nuclear reactors since the Fukushima disaster four years ago...

'We must be prepared to have better structured framework to prevent all these disasters. The United Nations makes a high priority of having and promoting disaster-risk reduction structures, and we hope that we will continue to work together on that' said Ban Ki-moon on his official visit to Chile...