Covid crisis points to climate challenge ahead

Rising sea levels and other adverse effects of climate change have been playing out across the planet this year. Climate scientists say these are signs of what’s to come. — AFP

GETTING to school as a boy growing up in Singapore in the 1970s could be soggy affair at times.

Tropical downpours overwhelmed drainage systems, leaving parts of the island impassable. Students braved the rains and rising waters, turning up wet and bedraggled, if they made it at all.