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
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
<p>More than half of the solar energy absorbed by land surfaces is currently used to evaporate water. Climate change is expected to intensify the hydrological cycle and to alter evapotranspiration, with implications for ecosystem services and feedback to regional and global climate.
Substantial changes in population size, age structure, and urbanization are expected in many parts of the world this century. Although such changes can affect energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, emissions scenario analyses have either left them out or treated the min a fragmentary or overly simplified manner.
Need of the hour is to adopt eco-friendly lifestyle pattern, says Barnala Chennai: Launching Youth Exnora International here on Thursday, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala asked the youth to volunteer themselves in the mission to protect the earth from the perils of climate change. In his address, the Governor said the country had huge youth power and brain power and there was a need to channel
The poorest people who need the most help to adapt to a changing climate are largely being bypassed by the small amount of climate funds now being disbursed, said international aid agency Oxfam at the UN climate change talks in Tianjin, China, yesterday. In a new report, Righting Two Wrongs: Making a New Global Climate Fund Work for Poor People, Oxfam recommends a new Global Climate Fund to ens
Mohammed Iqbal JAIPUR: Small and marginal farmers from across Rajasthan giving their testimonies at a public hearing on climate change here on Tuesday feared that they would be the
Kathmandu: A new system that will allow scientists to monitor the impact of climate change in the Himalayas using images from Nasa satellites was launched in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Tuesday. Experts say Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring floods and later drought to the region.
JAIPUR: A State-level public hearing on climate change being organised here on Tuesday will provide an opportunity to farmers, livestock owners and small producers from different agro-climatic zones of Rajasthan to draw the policymakers' attention to the impact of global warming on their livelihoods. Climate change has seemingly manifested itself in the desert State through the anomalies such a
The combustion of fossil fuels has enriched levels of CO2 in the world
The waters of the Colorado River serve 27 million people in seven states and two countries but are overallocated by more than 10% of the river
<p><span id="itro1">Countries in the Asia-Pacific are more prone to natural disasters than those in other parts of the world says this first of its kind regional disaster report launched at 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in South Korea.</span></p>