The toilets are cheap and require little maintenance, but locals will still need convincing. In the Cambodian village of Prek Toal, everything floats. Houses, schools, grocery stores, a police station ...

For nearly 400 years, farmers in the southern floodplains of Bangladesh have relied on floating gardens to grow vegetables. Using a method of cultivation called dhap, or known locally as baira, ...

SCHOONSCHIP, Amsterdam — Marjan de Blok readjusts her body weight as she treads across the jetties linking a floating community on the River IJ. Her cheeks and nose are elfin red from the whipping ...

I try to read everything I can get my hands on when it comes to disasters and emergency management. But I must have missed the "Floating Home" concept, since it has been around for a few years. Check ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Bangladesh's floating gardens, built to grow food during flood seasons, could offer a sustainable solution for parts of the world prone to flooding because of climate change, a new ...

Leave it to the Dutch, denizens of a low-lying, flood-prone region, to concoct a scheme for floating cities that adapt to the rising sea levels caused by climate change. The floating city idea, ...

Living in an area prone to flooding has historically meant that you need high sockets and deep pockets. Baca Architects, however, has come up with an altogether more ingenious solution. Its ...

This flood-prone Dutch city, one of the world’s largest ports, is meeting the challenges of rising seas with innovative architecture. As viewed from the Euromast observation tower, Rotterdam is a ...

China is embarking on a groundbreaking project to develop the world’s largest 50 MW floating wind turbine, designed to withstand the severe conditions of typhoon-prone regions. This ambitious ...

DOHA: The floating schools in Bangladesh, Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha initiative, which was judged to have best provided innovative financing of primary education among the six WISE award winners, is ...

UK veteran and near-walking-legend of the electronic scene, Floating Points is prone to reinvention. The last most audiences heard of him, he united with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony ...