Besides the massive amounts of property damage that climate-change-related events have caused, it's also sending people to the hospital at rapid rates. And those costs are adding up.READ»
Did you know that in 1910, Paris got flooded so badly that it became, as one writer puts it, "a reluctant Venice, gondolas and all, virtually overnight"? Me neither, but this creepy video by Olivier Campagne and Vivien Balzi--which ...READ»
Whether or not the increased number of natural disasters is real or imagined, one thing is clear: We're paying more and more money to deal with their aftermath.READ»
Indonesians, who were the victims of earthquakes, a tsunami, and volcanic eruptions last month, are finding help from an unlikely source: Twitter.READ»
In the U.S., Facebook launched Places yesterday, and everyone started speaking their truths: this is the end of Gowalla and Foursquare, the tipping point of
location-based services, the end of privacy. In the meantime, across the
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About half the world's population eats rice daily. It's one of the globe's most important food staples, said plant geneticist Pamela Ronald. But, she added, around 25% of that rice is grown in flood-prone regions.
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Here's a unique way to adapt to global warming: build floating apartment complexes. That's what Dutch designer Koen Olthuis is doing in the Netherlands with the Citadel, a residential complex that will be built on top of a ...READ»
Cell phone towers can do more than just satisfy our need for constant communication; they might be able to save us from major floods, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University. Professor Pinhas Alpert and colleagues report in ...READ»
