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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Famine in the Horn of Africa: Never again?
East Africa is stalked by famine once more despite scientists' early warnings of disaster. Can the lessons be learned?
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Farmers may soon acquire land abroad
Land acquisition overseas for farming could soon become a reality. The agriculture ministry plans to announce a policy that will allow farmers to buy land in continents like South America and Africa to farm for all sorts of crops.
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Temperature rise in the Bharathapuzha river basin, southern India
As part of our environmental analysis of the Bharathapuzha river basin, southern India, we examined the trend of temperature in the basin for a period of 36 years (1969–2005). It shows an overall upward
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We thought trouble was coming
Chris Funk explains how his group last year forecast the drought in Somalia that is now turning into famine — and how that warning wasn't enough.
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Characteristic features of hourly rainfall in India
Hourly rainfall data recorded at 72 Self Recording Raingauge Stations (SRRG) for the period 1969–2006 are utilized to study the characteristic features of hourly rainfall and diurnal variations of rainfall
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Integrated assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone: summary for decision makers
<p>Scientific evidence and new analyses demonstrate that control of black carbon particles and tropospheric ozone through rapid implementation of proven emission reduction measures would have immediate and multiple benefits for human well-being. Black carbon exists as particles in the atmosphere and is a major component of soot; it has significant human health and climate impacts.
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Emissions from fire in sub-Saharan Africa: the magnitude of sources, their variability and uncertainty
About half of the global gas and particle emissions to the atmosphere resulting from the burning of biomass originate from sub-Saharan Africa. There are four principal pathways: wildfires, the use of biomass
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Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes
<p>Extremes of weather and climate can have devastating effects on human society and the environment. Understanding past changes in the characteristics of such events, including recent increases in the intensity of heavy precipitation events over a large part of the Northern Hemisphere land area, is critical for reliable projections of future changes.
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Climate change to trigger more rainfall over tropics
Current projections indicate that rainfall might increase by five per cent to 25 per cent all over the tropics in the next 25 to 30 years on account of climate change, according to Ajit Tyagi, Director-General, India Meteorological Department. Talking to The Hindu after speaking at a session on
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Agriculture at risk
The people of Zimbabwe have to cope with a difficult political situation, but they also face many other problems daily. Climate change is making entire areas of land infertile and may halve crop yields by 2020. Zimbabwe