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Climate hotspot: sea level rise threatens millions in Mekong Delta rice belt
Ecologist
20th January, 2012
Some 60 million people depend on the Mekong River for their livelihoods but sea level rise and severe weather puts the area at risk, as Gratianne Quade's unique film shows more...
Man-made climate change doubling risk of extreme flooding
The Ecologist
17th February, 2011
By allowing emissions to to rise humans may have doubled the likelihood of further floods like those that struck the UK in 2000, say climate scientists in first attempt to prove link between man-made climate change and extreme weather more...
China counts £130bn cost of economic growth in ecological damage
Jonathan Watts, Guardian Asia environment correspondent
29th December, 2010
Cost of pollution, deteriorating soil and other impacts surged to 1.3tr yuan in 2008 - equivalent to 3.9 per cent of country's GDP - as officials warn of threats to ecology, food safety and flood control more...
Architects propose 'radical' coastal flood defenses
Ecologist
15th January, 2010
Architects, engineers and developers say that the UK faces an 'extreme threat' from flooding, and must respond accordingly more...
Atlantic Rising: Ghana's flood defense plans unfinished
Lynn Morris
13th January, 2010
An ambitious sea defence scheme in Ghana could have been successful but the job is not finished and thousands of homes still flood annually more...
Atlantic Rising: Life in a flooded slum in Freetown
Lynn Morris
11th December, 2009
Most people love their home town. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum? more...
Boscastle - after the flood, a green future
Paul Miles
21st July, 2009
When the Cornish village of Boscastle was devastated by flooding in 2004, few hoped to do any more than salvage the town. Today, it is flourishing, thanks to a new found awareness - and respect - for the power of Nature more...
Turkish dam project scrapped, but pipeline gets go-ahead
Ecologist
13th July, 2009
Turkey's plans for a hydroelectric dam on the Tigris have been scrapped as Europe withdraws funds for a failure to meet environmental obligations, while plans for the trans-Europe Nabucco gas pipeline are ratified more...
The world's first environmental refugees
Dan McDougall
30th January, 2009
The disappearance of Lohachara beneath the waters of the Bay of Bengal created the world’s first environmental refugees. Dan McDougall reports on other islanders in the Sundarbans delta who have no escape from the rising ocean. Photography by Robin Hammond more...
Embracing the waters
News
21st August, 2007
Sustainable cities will welcome floods rather than building defences, say futurologists at the Royal Institute of British Architects. more...
Death of Venice
Tony Zamparutti
20th March, 2001
This month a construction consortium will start pouring millions of tons of rock and cement into the Venice Lagoon – one of the Mediterranean’s most important wetlands. The consortium claims the dam project will ‘save’ the city from flooding. But the project failed its environmental impact assessment, threatens the ecology of the lagoon and – with global warming and rising sea-levels –may not even protect Venice anyway. Tony Zamparutti reports from Italy. more...
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