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Compare and contrast: Pristine Coral Reefs Discovered Are Thousands of Years Old And Teeming With Life
Good News Network
An international expedition from the Schmidt Ocean Institute to the Galapagos islands has revealed the presence of two pristine, cold-water coral reefs growing alongside the walls and bases of several seamounts over 1,000 feet below the surface. Click here to continue reading
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Compare and contrast: The country trailblazing the fight against disasters
BBC News
Bangladesh has a world-leading system to protect people from disasters, including through an army of female volunteers to better support women. What can other countries learn from it? Click here to continue reading
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Compare and contrast: Financing Viet Nam’s flood fighting efforts
International Food Policy Research Institute
Viet Nam is one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Its long coastline and river deltas are dangerously exposed to sea level rise. An estimated 10 million people will be affected in the next 15 years just from flooding alone. The Vietnamese government is keenly aware of these vulnerabilities and has been proactive in devising responses. Click here to continue reading
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Compare and contrast: Europe’s largest inner-city urban development project as a blueprint for the new European city on the waterfront
HafenCity
Despite the risk of occasional flooding, Hafen?City is neither surrounded by dikes, nor cut off from the water. Instead, with the exception of the quays and promenades, the whole area is being raised to between 8 and 9 m above sea level. The concept of building on artificial compacted mounds (warfts) lends an area once dominated by port and industrial uses a new, characteristic topography, retaining access to the water and the typical port atmosphere, while guaranteeing protection from floods. Click here to continue reading
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EuroNews Green
An old coal mine has been providing an English town with green energy for the last six months. The ground-breaking project in Gateshead is using the warm water that has filled the tunnels to heat hundreds of homes and businesses in the former coalfield community. Click here to continue reading
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Compare and contrast: Float-ovoltaics’: How floating solar panels in reservoirs could revolutionise global power
EuroNews Green
Floating solar panels on reservoirs could produce three times as much electricity as the entire EU, a new study has shown. Solar panels are one of the cheapest and most efficient ways of generating electricity but they also take up a lot of space. Click here to continue reading
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Compare and contrast: Google launches Flood Hub in the U.S., which predicts when rivers will flood and warns people to evacuate
Fast Company
In August, when heavy rain hit parts of Chile, tens of thousands of people had to evacuate their homes as their communities flooded. Many got a warning a couple of days in advance, thanks to a tool from Google called Flood Hub that rolled out in the country earlier this year. Click here to continue reading
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These massive B.C. coal mines are about to get a new owner. Why some are worried about Glencore’s record
The Narwhal
Teck’s plan to sell its Elk Valley coal mines to Swiss mining giant Glencore has raised alarm bells on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border amid negotiations over an international inquiry into extensive water contamination from the mines. Click here to continue reading
Quebec, feds to protect waterways around Anticosti Island with new marine park
CBC
Federal and provincial officials committed on Friday to the creation of a marine park to protect the waterways around Quebec’s Anticosti Island. Click here to continue reading
Runoff spill reported at Suncor’s Fort Hills oilsands site
Global News
A spill of surface runoff from a containment pond at Suncor Energy’s Fort Hills oilsands site may have spanned more than a year, the Alberta Energy Regulator has announced. Click here to continue reading