Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
Climate Change
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World still gripped by warming trend - UN agency
The warming trend that has gripped our climate for the past 20 years will make 2000 one of the hottest years since 1860, despite La Nina's cooling effect on the tropical Pacific and other anomalies,
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Nepal parched while India reaping big out of Gandak irrigation system
Three decades down the road, after the construction of the Gandak canals-the East Gandak which irrigates northern Bihar and parts of Nepal's Parsa district (in the central Terai), and the West Gandak
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Europe's air of self-righteousness
Putting the US as the perpetual monster of greenhouse gas emissions does little to reverse climate
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Climate change theory stuns scientists
Carbon dioxide is being oversold as the chief cause of climate change, says a top Canadian scientist who has tracked global temperatures and greenhouse gases back 500 million years. Other natural
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Arctic Sea ice 'thins by almost half'
Two UK scientists say they have found evidence to show that sea ice is thinning across the Arctic. The two, Dr Peter Wadhams and Dr Norman Davis, are from the Scott Polar Research Institute in
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Floods will double in our children's lifetime
A dozen serious floods a year could become the norm in Britain as a result of global warming, an expert with the Environment Agency said. His warning was given as academics and insurers urged the
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Climate 'threat' to US water
Climate change during this century could seriously affect water resources in the US, a report warns. It says there has already been "substantial" thawing of the Alaskan permafrost and "unprecedented"
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Hopes fade for climate deal
Hopes of securing an international deal on climate change before President Bill Clinton leaves office faded when the US and the European Union failed to agree terms for resuming negotiations in Oslo
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U.S. rejects fresh talks on climate change
The United Statess rejected an invitation to reopen climate talks with the European Union, killing the latest effort to forge an international strategy on global warming. "Without additional
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Final bid to stop warming
Ministers will this week launch a last-ditch bid to save the world's battle against global warming, in the wake of last month's disastrous summit in The Hague. European environment ministers, who