Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: China's so-called "sponge cities" were designed to boost flood resilience in metropolitan areas. But their effectiveness is ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. As climate change brings increasing flood threats, cities need ...

Tune into news from about any part of the planet, and there will likely be a headline about extreme weather. While these stories will be specific to the location, they all tend to include the ...

Kongjian Yu, the son of a rice farmer who tended terraced water-filled rice fields in China, is now a world-renowned leading voice on what he calls 'sponge planet:' Sponge cities, sponge waterfronts, ...

In 2019, when the Thai government announced plans to turn an abandoned tobacco factory in the nation’s smoggy capital into a public park, Bangkok-based landscape architect Chatchanin Sung saw an ...

So-called sponge cities use green roofs, rain gardens, wetlands, and other nature-based measures to absorb, retain, and purify excessive stormwater. A perspective published in WIREs Water discusses ...