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The number of households in Britain at risk of flooding will more than double by 2050 to more than 1.9m owing to the effects of climate change, research has found.
Two recent studies are adding powerful evidence to fears that the system of Atlantic ocean currents is losing strength. If the weakening continues, the impact could be serious. Winter weather is likely to become less stable in Europe and the US east coast, with more outbursts of extremely cold air from the Arctic, while increasing risks of drought in the Sahel.
Mobile phones can be harnessed to predict natural disasters as well as tackle their aftermath. Several mobile operators and the satellite industry are exploring options to predict earthquakes and tsunamis with greater accuracy.
The Financial Times is looking for 50 ideas in five different fields that can change the world. One of the fields is nature and how risks from disasters can be addressed. The nomination call is for techniques that harness all aspects of our environment, from space to the deep oceans, to solve a particular problem for humanity.
'We have moved away from just response to a much more integrated approach, of how and why disasters happen and their management,' said Andrew Maskrey, head of risk knowledge at the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, reports the FT...
While the UN climate change conference is taking place in Doha, Typhoon Bopha brought storms, flooding and mudslides to Mindanao in the Philippines. Albert del Rosario foreign secretary of the Philippines has asked international delegates to conclude a Kyoto protocol 2 that would increase climate change adaptation aid to developing nations...
'The next storm could hit next year or in 20 years. The real question for New Yorkers is, given that there will be another storm, what do they want it to look like? And if they don’t want it to look like Sandy, they are going to have to spend some money,' said hurricane expert Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado-Boulder...
'Haitian families and communities have been at the forefront of efforts to build more resilient cities' through the prioritization of needs, such as the establishment of disaster-resilient infrastructure, noted the administrator of the UN Development Programme and former prime minister of New Zealand...
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