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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Parched ground
Maharashtra in the grip of severest drought since 1972 maharashtra seems to be heading towards a drought-year. On July 9, the state government declared a
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India to be 4 hotter in 40 years
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The effect of climate change on India could be far worse than previously estimated. Latest projections indicate that after 2050, temperatures would rise by 3-4 degrees over current levels and rainfall would become both heavier and less regular, posing a grave threat to agriculture. These are part of the research conducted by scientists at Pune's Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, one of the key government institutions studying climate change in India. The findings are currently under review by a well-recognized scientific journal.
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Link found between warm spells and extreme rain
Andrew C. Revkin Scientists studying variations in tropical heat and rainfall since the mid-1980s have found a strong link between warm periods and more extreme downpours. The observed rise in the heaviest rains is about twice that produced by computer simulations used to assess human-caused global warming, said the researchers. Other studies have already measured a rise in heavy rains in areas as varied as North America and India, and climatologists have long forecast more heavy rains in a world warmed by accumulating greenhouse gases.
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Warmer weather leads to more intense rainfall
Global Warming-Linked Showers May Lead To Flooding Washington: US and British researchers have confirmed the link between warmer climate and an increase in powerful rainstorms, according to a study that underscores one of the challenges of global warming. The researchers even found that the increase of extreme rainfall was higher than what has been predicted in current computer models, according to the study published in the journal Science on Thursday.
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Climate maps offer wildlife hope of sanctuary
A new way to predict how habitat zones will shift or vanish could help usher endangered species to safety.
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Climate Change Equals Stronger Rains
Tracking El Ni
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Towards sustainable foodgrain production for national food security
Food security has become incresingly important globally as well as at domestic front as the global foodgrain production is not keeping pace with increasing population.
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Late rains revive kharif outlook
MONSOON WATCH Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 1, 2008, 22:15 IST Monsoon is back in almost all the rain-starved areas of the peninsula, Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. As a result, there has been a dramatic change in the overall kharif crop outlook. Conditions are turning favourable for planting paddy, the main crop, as well as pulses, oilseeds and even cotton.
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World's wettest place continues to chase its own record
SHILLONG, July 31
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Rain leaves 7 dead as Karachi plunges into darkness
Rains in Karachi on Tuesday left seven people dead and several injured, while the entire power generation and distribution system of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) collapsed, plunging almost 85 percent of the city into darkness. The heavy downpour led to tripping of major feeders supplying electricity to the city.