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Photo credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider Blog

A person in the Asia-Pacific region is four times more at risk of natural hazards than a person in Africa and sixteen times more than someone in North America or Europe. The “riskscape” of the region…

Photo credit: NASA image by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data from University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility Blog

Recent research by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shown that the world is likely to reach or exceed 1.5°C of warming much earlier than previously anticipated. The United in…