Major industrial and economic centres in China and the United States are among the most vulnerable regions in the world to the increasingly destructive power of climate change-driven weather extremes, according to a comprehensive analysis Monday.
With fewer beaver dams, snow melt that trickled slowly into rivers and streams started flowing more quickly downstream. And climate change is making the problem worse.
Philtino in South Africa and Shivday in India are already living with the reality of drought and flooding. We look at how their communities, and so many others are dealing with a lack of clean water.
