Flooding in London three years ago caused widespread damage and disruption. One way to avoid a repeat is for the capital to become more… spongy. Sponge cities use green spaces like parklands and ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

'Sponge cities' promote urban resilience to climate change and we badly need initiatives like these in areas vulnerable to flooding Sections of Marina Park, Cork working as a 'flood storage basin ...

New York City experienced record rainfall last week, prompting officials to declare a state of emergency due to mass flooding. Extreme rainfall events like this will likely become more common as ...

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.

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