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Mumbai is unprepared for future deluges, with a booming population and increasing frequency of heavy rain days, according to studies. Over 35% of the city's population lives within 250 meters of chronic flooding hotspots, while less than half have access to flood shelters. The intensity of monsoon rainfall in Mumbai is intensifying, and the city is also experiencing land subsidence. Recent analyses have found that certain areas of Mumbai are at risk of submergence due to sea-level rise. Around 998 buildings and 24km of road length will be affected by potential sea-level rise by 2050. | Mumbai ...

In a peripatetic life, beginning with a flight from the Nazis, she found a kind of stability in making pictures for more than seven decades.

Photographer who would ‘take her camera on a walk’ to capture images of the human condition in all its guises

When Dorothy Bohm was saying goodbye to her family as she was fleeing the Nazis, her father gifted her first Leica camera.

“The Sea Is Swallowing Us Whole”: How Sinking Land, Rising Sea Level Threaten Semarang Laborers. To read this report in bahasa Indonesia, click here. Tidal floods continue to surround Semarang due to land subsidence, worsened by sea level rise. It was just another one fine day in late May 2022...