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People watch the rising flood waters crossing the Canada/United States border in Huntington Village in Abbotsford, B.C., on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

B.C. government prepares for flooding when drought inevitably ends

The British Columbia government says it's ready to deploy sand bags and tiger dams in case flooding follows the ongoing drought.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | October 14th 2022

Pakistani health workers fumigate to kill mosquitos in an effort to prevent an outbreak of dengue fever, in Islamabad, Pakistan. on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Washington to send more aid to Pakistan post floods

The United States has boosted assistance to Pakistan’s flood relief efforts, announcing $10 million in aid, in addition to Washington's already announced financial assistance of $56.1 million, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, September 26, 2022.

By Munir Ahmed | News, US News | September 27th 2022

Cotton crops are submerged in floodwaters due to heavy monsoon rains, in Tando Jam near Hyderabad, a district of southern Sindh province, Pakistan, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

Pakistan floods ruin crops and raise fears of hunger

Like every year, Arz Mohammed had planted his little patch of land in southern Pakistan with cotton. The crop would earn him enough so that, as he puts it, his family of five wouldn’t be reduced to begging. Then came the deluge.

By Munir Ahmed & Muhammad Farooq | News | September 26th 2022

Pedestrian scramble, Shibuya, Tokyo. Photo by Dimitry B. / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

The Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto that is captivating Japan

Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English.

Race Against Climate Change

By Justin McCurry | News | September 16th 2022

Flooded farmland in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. The city is getting a funding boost from the B.C. government to help ensure its drinking water system will withstand climate-related disasters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

After fall flooding, Abbotsford banks on new $84.4M water system to help it weather climate storm

The city came "perilously close" to running out of clean drinking water during last November's floods, and it wasn't the first time the problem has arisen.

By Canadian Press | News | September 14th 2022

Tekosha Seals, a tourist visiting from Georgia, walks with a tower over her head at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 2022, during a heat wave. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Prescient extreme weather warning was issued 10 years ago

The 594-page report’s 20-page summary highlighted five case studies of climate risks from worsening extreme weather that scientists said will be more of a problem and how governments could deal with them.

By Seth Borenstein | News | September 13th 2022

In this handout photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, left, was received on his arrival by Deputy Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar at the airport in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sept. 9, 2022. (Pakistan Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

UN chief makes world-wide appeal to help badly flooded Pakistan

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the world for help for cash-strapped Pakistan after arriving in the country on Friday, September 9, 2022, to see the climate-induced devastation from months of deadly record floods.

By Munir Ahmed | News | September 9th 2022

Firefighters help evacuate residents from a flooded area after heavy rainfall in Bangalore, India, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Kashif Masood)

India's tech hub, Bengaluru flooded after days of torrential rain

Life for many in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru was disrupted on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, after two days of torrential rains set off long traffic snarls, widespread power cuts and heavy floods that swept into homes and submerged roads.

By Associated Press | News | September 6th 2022

Muktiyara Bibi looks for salvageable belongings from her flood-hit home in Shikarpur district of Sindh province, of Pakistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

UN seeks $160 million in aid for devastating Pakistan floods

The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record−breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid−June.

By Munir Ahmed | News | August 31st 2022

High water levels wash out highway 307 just northeast of Winnipeg, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. File Photo by The Canadian Press/John Woods

Canada's economy could take $139 billion hit from floods, storms, drought by 2050

Floods, droughts and major storms that wash out highways, damage buildings and affect power grids could cost Canada’s economy $139 billion over the next 30 years, a new climate−based analysis predicts.

By Mia Rabson | News | August 29th 2022

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