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Chaotic urbanization puts cities in harm's way: UN

2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The risk of man-made and natural disasters hitting fast-growing cities is rising, and national governments must do more to help municipal authorities protect residents through better planning, the head of the U.N. agency for human settlements said. UN-Habitat Executive Director Joan Clos said urbanization was accelerating, particularly in developing countries, while the capacity to keep it manageable was diminishing. The proportion of the global population living in urban areas has risen from...

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Warming has created a hot new job in America's coastal cities

2016-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EENews: A view of the downtown Miami coastline. The city is one of a growing number of coastal urban areas hiring chief resilience officers to help plan for the impacts of climate change. Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. MIAMI -- On the job just six months as the chief resilience officer in Florida's largest county, Jim Murley has gotten pretty good at his climate change 101 speech. It's out of necessity. As the Earth's temperature rises, the oceans warm, he told...

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