Disaster hacks: South American cities harness tech and nature to tackle flooding →
Using sensors, green areas, better planning and more advice from communities, cities are battling growing flood risk. PLACE
Read MoreThis single shipping container can start powering a small renewable grid in less than a day →
The system, from a startup called BoxPower, can be assembled and begin providing power in less than a day. It’s designed for use both immediately after disasters and to make communities more resilient to future disasters, is easy to rapidly install. FAST COMPANY
Read MoreFrom drones to social media, big data helps confront more complex disasters in Asia →
Technological innovations — from unique digital identities for drought-hit farmers to use of data from drones and social media — can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday. REUTERS
Read MoreIn flood-prone southern India, doctors tend mental scars of disasters →
In Kerala state, authorities and mental health experts are providing community-based care for those struggling to deal with the trauma of flash floods and landslides. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Read MoreAre these fireproof, hurricane-proof geodesic domes the post-climate change house of the future? →
Geoship is touting the bioceramic geodesic dome as the home of the future—and getting help on the rollout from Zappos, which wants to build some near its headquarters to give to the homeless. FAST COMPANY
Read MoreBangladesh tries new way to aid flood-hit families: cash up front →
Money in advance of an expected disaster can give vulnerable people resources to avoid the worst losses, backers say. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION