The Arctic sea ice has suffered devastating loss and has shrunk to its second lowest on record. Melting sea ice is just one of many signs of a warming climate in the North. Emanuela Campanella explains how climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic Circle.
Many slum dwellers in the Philippine capital Manila live in constant fear of flooding. Now their shelters, often located near water, are to be cleared away as part of the city's flood management plans.
"Risks such as sea-level rise and heat stress will increasingly highlight the vulnerability not only of individual assets and locations, but of entire metropolitan areas," a new report from the Urban Land Institute said.
A new scientific survey has found that the glaciers of the Arctic are the world's biggest contributors to rising seas, shedding ice that now adds well over a millimeter to the level of the ocean every year. That's more than the Antarctic is contributing. But the worse news is that both ice regions appear to be accelerating their losses simultaneously.
