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for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
After Valencia, nobody can say they did not know
We used to think the kind of damage wrought by recent flooding in the west of Spain was beyond imagination. Very soon, it could become the norm
Dominic Hinde9th November 2024
Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a
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Seneca), ‘Floods will rob us of one thing, fire of another.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
It looks more like Venice than London. The river has swelled its banks enormously, flooding Chiswick and Shepherd’s Bush. Half the city drowned with floodwater, glistening in the sun.