Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Rainfall Pattern
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Study says climate change is upon Bhutan
Longer summer, shorter winter observed in many places. The weather pattern in Bhutan has become unpredictable. The country, in recent times, has witnessed erratic rainfall, crop and livestock diseases,
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Rural households in a changing climate
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges
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Millions in Colorado basin to face water shortage: Study
Warmer weather and a growing population may in a few decades cause a water shortage for 40 million people who depend on the Colorado river in the US, researchers say. Climate modellers at the Columbia
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Recent cloudburst-induced landslides around Okhimath, Uttarakhand
On 13 September 2012, the Okhimath region in Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand was revisited by cloudburstinduced landslides which killed 66 people and damaged land and property.(Correspondence)
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Drought Looms as India Faces Rain Deficit
India faces the risk of devastating drought as monsoon rains are likely to have a shortfall of 70% in the years ahead, as climate change shakes up global weather phenomena, recent research and experts
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95.72m people to be displaced by 2040: report
Environmental and weather-related disasters caused by climate change would displace more than 95.72 million people in Bangladesh by 2040, warned a study giving an alarming scenario of climate-induced internal
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Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought
Analysis of data from forest plants worldwide shows that margins between threshold xylem pressures at which plants suffer damage and the lowest xylem pressures experienced are small, with no difference
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Ground water and climate change
As the world’s largest distributed store of fresh water, ground water plays a central part in sustaining ecosystems and enabling human adaptation to climate variability and change. The strategic importance
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Changing social contracts in climate-change adaptation
Risks from extreme weather events are mediated through state, civil society and individual action. We propose evolving social contracts as a primary mechanism by which adaptation to climate change proceeds.
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Evidence of the dependence of groundwater resources on extreme rainfall in East Africa
Groundwater recharge sustains the groundwater resources on which there is global dependence for drinking water and irrigated agriculture. For many communities, groundwater is the only perennial source