Climate Hazard

• Catastrophe experts say retreat from flood risk is ‘critical option’

  Preventing damage in flooding requires a more costly community-level response, he said, whether that means property buyouts or expensive dyking systems.

  Environment

  Oct 9, 2022
  
• Pakistan flooding: UN Secretary-General visits Sindh and Baluchistan provinces

  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was on the second day of a two-day visit to Pakistan, which has been devastated by months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding.

  World

  Sep 10, 2022
  
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• Pakistan flooding causes damage to 4,500-year-old archaeological site

  The flooding has not directly hit Mohenjo Daro but the record-breaking rains have inflicted damage on the ruins of the ancient city, said Ahsan Abbasi, the site's curator.

  World

  Sep 6, 2022
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• Climate hazards make 58% of infections diseases in people worse, study shows

  Researchers found that 218 out of the known 375 human infectious diseases seemed to be made worse by one of 10 types of extreme weather connected to climate change.

  Health

  Aug 8, 2022