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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Warmer Ladakh has more to eat
Climate change is leaving Ladakhis rather confused. This cold desert perched on the roof of the world is now warmer. There is more rain. Ladakhis are seeing these changes as a mixed blessing. Till some years ago Ladakh received merely 35 mm of rain. No farmer or household counted on rainfall for crops or for drinking water.
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Climate of Port Blair with special reference to temperature and rainfall between 1949 and 2008 - An overview
This article is an attempt to assess possible changes in the climate of Port Blair, the capital of the Union territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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Tipping points for the Amazon forest
The stability of the Amazon forest
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Hard science
While relatively little is known definitively about the glaciers of the Himalaya and Hindukush, what facts do exist need to be acknowledged as such.
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State received lowest rainfall since 2002
Gandhinagar: The state may have received over 73 per cent rainfall, but this is the lowest rainfall after 2002. Gujarat has so far received 70.7 cm of rainfall against the seasonal average of 92.4 cm.
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Kerala should serve as model: R K Pachauri
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: R K Pachauri, environmental scientist and chairman of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel prize, has called upon Kerala to be a model to the rest of the world on regaining and reviving the global ecosystem.
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Regional analysis of rainfall extremes of part of Western Ghat, India
The state of Kerala in the southwestern corner of the Indian peninsula is climatically unique in many respects because of the impact of the Western Ghat Mountains. This results in a wide range of climates and the associated marked gradient in the annual total of rainfall which ranges from ~6000 mm at the crest of Western Ghat, to as low as 600 mm in the valley portion.
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Sunspots spark climate change
Singapore: Small changes in the Sun
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Climate change & Indian monsoon: some key issues
This presentation by B N Goswami, Director, IITM at CSE's South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change warns that climate change has affected the monsoon pattern in India & the days of long-duration rains in Central India are almost gone.
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Satellite data show Indian water stocks shrinking
Unsustainable water use in India is threatening agricultural production and raising the spectre of a major water crisis.