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Vietnam Village Starts Over With Climate Defences After Landslide

Nguyen Thi Kim sitting on a pillar of a destroyed house at the original site of Lang Nu village in Lao Cai province, after part of it was wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi (Credit: AFP)

Nguyen Thi Kim's small verdant community in northern Vietnam no longer exists, wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi's devastating heavy rains last year.

She and dozens of survivors have been relocated to a site that authorities hope will withstand future climate change-linked disasters, with stronger homes, drainage canals and a gentler topography that lessens landslide risks.

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