But a sponge city does the opposite ... of his ideas following high-profile flooding disasters in Beijing and Wuhan in recent years. It paid off. In 2015, following President Xi Jinping's ...

But now the Berkshire town looks set to gain a new claim to fame as it will get the Chinese "sponge ... Wuhan, now best known for an entirely different reason, is considered its leading sponge ...

Launched in 2015, the Sponge City Initiative invests in projects that aim to soak up floodwater. The projects are being built in 30 cities, including Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xiamen. By 2020 ...

Becoming a sponge city doesn't just conserve water and prevent ... Other cities that are becoming "spongier" include Wuhan, ...

This simultaneously reduces floods and increases the city water supply. The sponge cities concept was ... flooding problems in China – including Wuhan, where urbanization had erased all but ...

For more than two months, the city of Wuhan, China, was sealed off from the outside world. Flights in and out were canceled. Train and bus routes were suspended. Highway entrances were blocked.

The three towns, separated by the Yangtze and Hanshui rivers,a re linked by bridges, and because these municipalities are so closely connected by waterways, Wuhan is also called the "city on rivers." ...

While most of the world dithers in the face of climate catastrophe, Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been implementing climate resilience projects on a vast scale. Yu’s design firm, ...

The virus, which is marked by fevers and pneumonia-like symptoms, originated in Wuhan, an 11-million-person city in China's Hubei province. On Wednesday, local disease-control authorities in Wuhan ...

Cities make up 70% of global energy use and 75% of total CO2 emissions. It is expected that by 2050, eight times more city dwellers will be exposed to high temperatures and 800 million will be at risk ...