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Le grand Tunis 'est soumis à de multiples risques naturels' révèle une étude de la Banque Mondiale chargée d’évaluer la vulnérabilité des villes côtières d’Afrique du Nord face au changement climatique et aux désastres naturels...

Flood-prone Bangladesh and the Netherlands are planning to exchange research findings and share experience on managing floods, which are projected to worsen because of climate change, reports SciDevNet...

The impact of disaster varies from region to region and in one region, disasters do not affect the entire community equally. Even in a single community, it affects the male in one way and women in another way, usually in a much worse way, writes M Mizanur Rahman in an op-ed...

The New York Times reports on city officials and planners taking a slower, quieter approach to addressing climate change adaptation - an approach that works say those interviewed: they pursue climate risk reduction strategies, just don't mention 'climate change'. A question of language? ...

Realizing the human and economic imperative to shift from a disaster response culture to one of prevention and risk reduction, parliamentarians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are stepping up to the challenge.

A study released this week predicts a grim future for the ecosystem in and around Yellowstone National Park (USA), reports the Huffington Post. The study concluded that rising temperatures associated with climate change could result in many more severe forest fires in the coming decades, reports the Huffington Post...

En México, de los 2,449 municipios que hay, sólo 122 (el 5 por ciento) cuentan con proyectos de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático...

'We must do everything possible at national, states and community levels to adapt and take proactive measures needed to ensure that individuals and communities are capable of dealing with the detrimental impacts of climate change,' NEMA Director general Muhammad Sani-Sidi said in a Daily Trust report...