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- Villagers retrieve belongings, which were they kept on the higher ground, while they wade thorough flooded area, in Qambar Shahdadkot, a flood-hit district of Sindh province, Pakistan, Oct. 25, 2022. At the height of the floods in Sukkur, a city in Sindh that neighbors Baluchistan province, people used boats on the roads. Now, there are few signs the city was ever flooded as hundreds of pumps were brought in. Baluchistan is not so prepared, despite disaster striking it often. Around 75% of Baluchistan's population has been affected by this year's catastrophic rainfall. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Insurgency, neglect hurt flood relief in Pakistani province
By RIAZAT BUTT - Associated Press
Tue,11/22/22-12:09AM , 563 Reads
GANDAKHA, Pakistan (AP) — Maryam Jamali should have been preparing for an economics exam. Instead, the teenager from the flood-hit Pakistani province of Baluchistan was helping organize postpartum clinics and shelter for people neglected by relief efforts.
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- Mari Carmen Zambrano poses for a photo on her broken and wet bed as she dries it outside her home that lost its roof to Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
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EXPLAINER: How will UN climate deal on loss and damage work?
By DANA BELTAJI AND PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press
Sun,11/20/22-4:31PM , 217 Reads
SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — The decision Sunday by nations around the world to establish a fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet was one of the most significant since U.N. climate talks began 30 years ago.
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- A walkway goes through ponds and islets at the "Fish Tail" sponge park that's built on a former coal ash dump site in Nanchang in north-central China's Jiangxi province on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. The concept of the park involves creating and expanding parks and ponds within urban areas to prevent flooding and absorb water for times of drought. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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As climate warms, a China planner advocates "sponge cities"
By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA - Associated Press
Tue,11/15/22-1:00AM , 128 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — To cushion the impact of extreme weather due to climate change, a Chinese landscape architect has been making the case for China and other countries to create so-called “sponge cities.”
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- Huts made of branches and cloth provide shelter to Somalis displaced by drought on the outskirts outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 19, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
By WANJOHI KABUKRU - Associated Press
Fri,11/11/22-1:40AM , 144 Reads
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit.
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