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SINGAPORE — Intense downpours drenched the whole of Singapore in the past week, with the country recording 225.5mm of rain in Kallang last Tuesday (Feb 28) — the wettest February day ever recorded here. With the showers expected to last through the first fortnight of March, The Straits Times asks Science Centre Singapore chief executive Lim Tit Meng why it...

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OTTAWA - Canada is set to have a new national climate adaptation strategy, outlining the government's intention to eliminate deaths from heat and forest fires, protect homes and businesses at the highest risk of flooding and help get people forced to flee extreme weather back home faster.

TORONTO - When Emma Hudgins was born, her parents planted an ash tree.

Tides are rising, sands are shifting and coastlines are crumbling. As studies warn of rising seas and accelerated erosion resulting from climate change, coastal communities in Canada are wondering what the future holds.

“It’s a disaster in slow motion,” said SFU earth sciences professor John Clague.

YELLOWKNIFE - Andrew Arreak says travelling on the ice — the main highway in Canada's Arctic — provides access to the land and food, connects communities and is part of Inuit identity.

VANCOUVER - The two-storey family home with a classic design and wooden cladding blends in with its neighbours, but its thick, insulated walls, airtightness, solar panels, heat pump and highly efficient windows make it a home built for a warming world.

“For so long in Canada, we’ve been focused on trying to keep warm. Now, summers are getting hotter, and we’re having to adapt.”

Montreal family doctor Claudel Pétrin-Desrosiers sees climate change as an all-encompassing "risk amplifier."