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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

Last year's floods, droughts, and storms hurt transport and building infrastructure up and down the country, taking a toll on public health, worker productivity, and the wider economy. There are also a number of slower-moving threats to buildings in the UK, such as the impact drying soils have on building foundations.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.