Instead of billion-dollar floodwalls and surge barriers, Hampton, Virginia, is relying on rain gardens, plant-lined storage basins, restored marshes and 3D-printed concrete reefs seeded with oysters.
Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall and habitat loss are driving medicinal plants toward extinction while altering their healing properties, threatening health care systems relied on by more than 80% of the global population.
As climate impacts accelerate faster than expected, philanthropist Kelly Erhart joins The Great Simplification to discuss cutting-edge climate science, looming tipping points, and experimental interventions that could help stabilize Earth’s systems.
The first climate migrants to leave the remote Pacific island nation of Tuvalu have arrived in Australia, hoping to preserve links to their sinking island home, foreign affairs officials said.
Trillions of dollars could be gained every year and millions of lives saved from protecting the climate and environment, according to the UN. DW speaks to Inger Andersen about what might help us get there.
Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.
Since the early 1930s, the state has lost about 2,000 square miles of land for a variety of reasons that range from groundwater pumping to building levees along the Misssisippi River that have stopped the natural dumping of sediment.
Texas earmarked $1.4 billion to help fund flood prevention projects. But after learning that so many communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed.
Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem.
