Here’s a story about one man’s vision — a man who saw cities drowning in floods and believed they could be saved, not with ...

One way to avoid a repeat is for the capital to become more… spongy. Sponge cities use green spaces like parklands and blue spaces like lakes and rivers to absorb rainwater and allow it to drain ...

The solution may lie in converting our beloved concrete jungles into so-called “sponge cities," which would do a better job than traditional cities of absorbing excess water into the ground.

"When it rains, it pours" once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it's becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a changing climate. Across the continental U.S., intense ...

USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump's foreign aid block, then says he's been put on leave Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest ...

The Chinese government is building water-absorbent projects in 30 cities as part of its "sponge city initiative." To date, the cities have received more than $12 billion for sponge projects.

Celebrated landscape architect Kongjian Yu tells Rob Wilson how he developed the Sponge City concept and about water’s importance in fighting climate change Kongjian Yu is a professor at Beijing ...

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