Ecosystems play a pivotal role as a frontline defense against hazards, acting as a shield to prevent disasters and mitigate their impacts on communities, critical infrastructure, and essential ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The World Risk Report 2012 says that human development activities have "massively raised the hazard ...

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Decision-makers around the world are increasingly interested in using ecosystem solutions such as mangroves, coral reefs, sand dunes and forests on steep slopes to help buffer the impacts from hazard ...

Researchers have found that, since 1950, economic losses from floods in Europe have decreased because of improvements in risk management, per a University of Potsdam news release. Climate adaptation ...

The recent news that North America and Hawaii are facing a ticking time bomb is disconcerting. Scientists are warning that the Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from Northern California to British ...

Submitted by Cisco Systems, Inc. Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability ...

TROPICAL WETLANDS should be soggy and green, not lands of flaming vegetation. Yet the world’s largest tropical wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal, has been burning for weeks, in the largest blazes to take ...