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The latest IPCC report detailing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability predicts future food and water supply insecurities and calls for both mitigation and adaptation, reports the Guardian...

Swiss Re, a reinsurance company assessed 616 cities of the world for their risk of earthquake, hurricanes and cyclones, storm surge, river flooding and tsunami and The Guardian features the 10 riskiest cities...

"I hope that we don't need too many more Sandys or Haiyans or fires in Australia or floods in the UK to wake us up. My sense is there is already much momentum. We have 66 governments that have climate legislation...

After talks with the UK cabinet office, real-time river levels, flood maps and more could all become available as free and commercially reusable data, reports the Guardian. According to Jack Townsend of the web science centre at the University of Southampton, 'for something like flood data, openness should be a no brainer'...

Houses should be redesigned, roads raised and tidal lagoons built that generate energy to reduce the impact of flooding in the UK, according to a panel of senior engineers and academics, reports the Guardian. 'In some senses we're still in a mode of 'discovery by disaster'...

'The issue that concerns me is that adaptation is reactive at the moment. As the rate of change accelerates, being responsive won’t be the most cost effective thing to do. We need a more strategic approach to adaptation, otherwise we will always be behind the eight ball,' Steve Crimp, senior research scientist for the CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship, told Guardian Australia...

'The UK's floods, Australia's record heat, the intense cold in the US, and the unparalleled force of Asian storms remind us that the real issue is intensity. We have to prepare, not just for too much water, but too little; not just for rain but for record tides and winds. The cost of adaptation to the effects of climate change is significant and so far hardly recognised,' according to John Gummer...

The number of deaths caused by hot weather are expected to rise due to climate change, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, reports The Guardian...