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While many coastal areas have natural evacuation zones within easy distance, it may be difficult in some communities to clear the inundation zone in time. Emergency managers in British Columbia are looking at vertical evacuation options: towers built to withstand first an earthquake and then a wall of rushing water and debris.
While disasters are becoming the new normal, the Canadian province of British Columbia is ill-equipped to protect the public, according to an external review commissioned in response to last year’s floods and wildfires. The report contains 108 recommendations on disaster preparedness, including allowing the public to join the fight against wildfires.
Canadians can expect more floods, storms and other damaging extreme weather events as global warming inevitably gets worse, according to a federal government report that also says governments are lagging in efforts to adapt to this climate change shift...
'The devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy is prompting renewed thinking about climate change and national security,' writes Lord Hunt of Delft University and former director-general of the UK Meteorological Office and Johnny Chan chair of the World Meteorological Organization’s Tropical Cyclone Panel...
Ontario's expert panel on climate-change adaptation is urging government authorities to use a newly released report 'Adapting to Climate Change in Ontario,' as the province's template for coping with changing climate, reports the Ontario based news agency, the Star...
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