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This North Shore community wants stronger protection against disasters, climate change
Residents in Hauula have been working for years to build Oahu’s first-ever resiliency hub, a storm-resistant center that could better protect their rural, isolated and vulnerable North Shore community after a hurricane, tsunami or other disaster.
David Fickling: Just how safe is Fukushima’s ‘contaminated’ water?
More than 12 years after the disaster that closed Japan’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the country will soon dispose of one of the most enduring legacies of the disaster.
Melting glaciers pose flash flooding risk for 15 million people, study says
Across the world’s iciest regions, communities live with the looming threat of inland tsunamis — massive walls of water moving quickly and forcefully from melting glaciers, known as glacial lake outburst floods.
Did climate change kill this Greenlander 70 years ago?
Concrete fuels climate change – but there's a nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas
Paradoxically, walls which are designed to protect people from the consequences of global heating also contribute to it.