A seaside neighborhood in Mexico Beach, Fla., devastated by Hurricane Michael this year.CreditScott Olson/Getty Images ImageA seaside neighborhood in Mexico Beach, Fla., devastated by Hurricane Michael this year. CreditCreditScott Olson/Getty Images By John Schwartz Nov. 19, 2018 Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by … Continue reading NYT: ‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters

Nishiko: Repairing Earthquake Project 18 November 2018 – 27 January 2019 Opening: Saturday 17 November, 17 hrs by Minister Yoshiko Ina Kijima of the Embassy of Japan in The Hague (vice ambassador) Join facebook event Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague Open: Wednesday-Sunday, 12-17 hrs Stroom School: Rising Waters Public program accompanying the exhibition, including the lecture series Rising Waters. >> read more Stroom Den Haag … Continue reading Stroom, Den Haag: Repairing Earthquake

FROM THE OFFICIAL A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS DESIGN BIENNIAL WEBSITE: The Art of Disaster Interrupted Workshop focuses on Istanbul and how the city reacts to the unpredictable, the improvised and the unprecedented events that are commonplace in this age of general uncertainty.  The workshop, produced for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial –A School of Schools and the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm, will be based in the Arter, which … Continue reading WORKSHOP REPORT: upside down in Istanbul.

October 17, 2018. Serkan Taycan presents in the Earth School at Arter, Between Two Seas, a project on the controversial canal to connect the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea. Some random scenes from the day’s workshops across the Sishane neighbourhood. An evening dinner at the famed Koço Restaurant in Kadiköy with Artin, the master metal craftsman and workshop participants. Continue reading Report from the Istanbul Design Biennial #-3

Tuesday 16 October: Ayse Erek  from Kadir Has University of Art and Design presenting an overview of Istanbul’s art scene with particular attention to the work of Gülsün  Karamustafa. Ayse invited the artist Emre Huner to join us for the morning session to present his photographic research on greater Istanbul. After lunch, I (Peter Lang) gave an informal presentation at  Kadir Has where I discovered … Continue reading Report from the Istanbul Design Biennial #-2

Cats in Istanbul. Morning session Monday 15 October, at the Earth School in Arter. with Asli Kiyak presenting her artisan projects in Sishane: followed by her tour of the neighbourhood workshops:   Mustafa’s woodshop, Ismail’s wood turning shop, Master Artin’s metal shop. Concluding session, after lunch, with preliminary group discussions  at  Cafe Gundogdu, Galata Tower. Continue reading Report from the Istanbul Design Biennial #1

  The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released … Continue reading Guardian: Huge risk if global warming exceeds 1.5C, warns landmark UN report

 Cape Denison, east Antarctica. ‘If the Antarctic ice melts before the Greenland ice sheet, the whole of North America’s eastern coast will go under water first.’ Photograph: Pauline Askin/Reuters Better scientific understanding of global warming makes the discussion about its geopolitical consequences increasingly urgent. Put simply, there are going to be winners and losers: hotter places and colder places; wetter places and drier places; and, … Continue reading Guardian: Which cities will sink into the sea first? Maybe not the ones you expect

Aftershocks rattle island of Sulawesi as vice-president warns nation to expect significant rise in fatalities Indonesia tsunami death toll expected to rise, say officials – live updates Hannah Ellis-Petersen , south-east Asia correspondent, and Kate Lamb The confirmed death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to 832, and the vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, has warned it could reach into … Continue reading Guardian: Indonesia tsunami: death toll could reach thousands, officials say

As flooding continues to inundate North Carolina, the death toll from Florence has risen to at least 31, with 24 deaths confirmed in North Carolina. The state’s governor, Roy Cooper, said on Monday that the “epic storm” was still an immediate danger as rivers reach major flood levels. The coastal city of Wilmington became an island amid heavy floods following the storm. Officials have warned … Continue reading BBC: Waffle House as a barometer of disaster