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From Tehran to Chennai, a city without water is a harbinger of a thirsty planetTehran’s water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian cities such a...
Chinese megacity limits outdoor lighting as record heat strains gridHangzhou, home to major companies like Alibaba, has banned nonessential landscape lighting to conserve energy amid extreme heat. With tempe...
Chinese cities brace for floods as heat scorches inland regionsBeijing and other cities braced for severe flooding on Friday as summer storms rolled across many parts of China, while inland regions bake...
Cities under strain: India's predicted urban boomThe metropolis of Mumbai, one of India's biggest, grew by some eight million people in the past 30 years -- the rough equivalent of the who...
China logs hottest August since records began: State mediaSouthern China last month sweltered under what experts said may have been one of the worst heat waves in global history, with parts of Sich...
Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on recordExperts have said the intensity, scope and duration of the heatwave could make it one of the worst recorded in global history. A chart from...
China extends power rationing for factories in droughtThe "tense situation" of power supplies in Sichuan province "has further intensified," Tencent News reported Monday. There was no public an...
UN: Climate change to uproot millions, especially in AsiaA staggering 143 million people will likely be uprooted over the next 30 years by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other clim...
China pledges further COVID-19 aid to Southeast AsiaChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations that China had already del...
Welcome to ‘peak decade,’ from globalization to central banksIan Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, describes this year as a “tipping point.”
Four from India in top 20 water vulnerable megacitiesA Study Of 400 Cities With Over 10 Million People Revealed That The Top 20 Comprised Those With High Scarcity And Those That Saw Floods
Now might be the time to have a Ministry of the Future in indiaThe lack of social and financial resolve that taints the country with a dismal performance, also makes it most suited to have a Ministry fo...