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The 'world's safest city' for 2021 revealed Asian cities like Tokyo, Singapore and Osaka formerly occupied the top spots in the Economist's annual list of safe destinations, but Covid has turned the world on its head. Now a European city leads the pack in terms of resilience, security and wellbeing. Continue Reading . . . https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/the-worlds-safest-city-2021-revealed/index.html

" By  Laura Parker PUBLISHED  JULY 12, 2017 Sea level rise   caused by global warming is usually cast as a doomsday scenario that will play out so far into the future, it’s easy to ignore. Just ask anyone in South Florida, where new construction proceeds apace. Yet already, more than 90 coastal communities in the United States are battling chronic flooding, meaning the kind of flooding that’s so unmanageable it prompts people to move away.... " http://buff.ly/2v39yyS via Buffer