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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsRivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric river storms drenching the state in early January 2023.
The evacuations at one point included all of Montecito, home to around 8,000 people – and t…
US cities facing sea level rise need to look beyond traditional strategies for managing issues such as critical erosion and coastal squeeze, according to new research from Lund University. Civil society initiatives must now play a crucial role in adapting society to climate change, the study argues.
Using the City of Flagler Beach in Florida as a case…
By Tayanah O'Donnell
It is no joke that New South Wales residents are in the midst of their fourth “one in 100 year” event since January 2020. Much of the Australian east coast continues to experience heavy rainfall, strong winds and abnormally high tides. All will make the current floods worse.
As climate tipping points are reached and the Earth’s sy…
The impacts of climate change will compound natural hazard risks so it’s imperative to include the option of managed retreat in adaptation planning for communities.
By Christina Hanna, Bruce Glavovic and Iain White
Despite living in dynamic environments and facing an uncertain future due to climate change, New Zealanders generally expect their land a…
Climate-change-driven sea level rise means more communities will need to move - but planning ahead could preserve what is most important and give families choices
Sea level rise likely to force relocations.
Moves offer a chance to address existing inequities.
At-risk communities need strong voice in decisions.
By Laurie Goering and Elijah Clarke…
By Nellie Peyton
SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal - " Mum, mum, get up - the water's here!"
Fatou Ndiaye's children shook her awake in the night, as waves crashed against their house on the coast of Saint-Louis, a city in northern Senegal.
They were used to sleeping with the sound of the ocean a few feet away - but this time Ndiaye stretched out her hand and fel…
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“There’s never been a concept that has really been dragged through the mud so much as managed retreat,” said Sekich-Quinn, the coastal preservation manager at the Surfrider Foundation. “And so it became frustrating for me to try to advocate for this, because it’s got this looming black cloud as a name.”
So a few years ago she started using a dif…
By A.R. Siders and Katharine Mach
June’s record-breaking heat wave left more than 40 million Americans sweltering in temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Some places reached 120 F, and energy grids were struggling to keep people cool. More than half the Western U.S. is now in extreme or exceptional drought, wildfires are already menacing homes, an…
NEW YORK - When former Google software engineer Patri Friedman came up with the idea of building floating islands, he had in mind an unusual buyer: Libertarians, seeking freedom to live beyond the reach of governments.
But his futuristic plan has now found a new, motivated and very different audience - small islands halfway around the world that are sl…