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
If you thought climate change affects all the nations in the world, you are mistaken. Finland, Russia and others are benefitting from climate change as the climate becomes warmer.
NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Wednesday expressed concern over climate change that was threatening the existence of several Indian herbs which are key ingredients in the traditional Ayurvedic system of medicine.
ALAPPUZHA: Many of the anthropogenic activities adversely affect marine biodiversity, and the globalwarming which brings about change in the temperature and wind pattern makes ocean difficult for animals to survive, said F G Benno Pereira, coordinator, Conservation Research Group, department of Aquaculture and Biochemistry, St Alberts College.
Mumbai Mumbai's weather has been erratic since December, an indication of the worldwide phenomenon of climate change, says Dr R V Sharma, deputy director general, India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Andrew C. Revkin There is sufficient scientific evidence of rising stress on the marine mammals from climate change. Half a century after Pacific walruses began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, marine biologists are growing worried that they face a mounting threat from global warming.
The effects of climate change could lead to as much as a 5% drop in the GDP of countries in South Asia and Africa, including India, a World Bank report warned on Sunday. The report said the effects of a 2-degree Celsius rise in temperature due to global warming could put up to 400 million people at risk of hunger and leave up to 2 billion lacking enough water resources.
Mumbai A Bandra girl was among 22 campaigners and scientists from Greenpeace International who rebelled against the loading of a large-scale coal consignment from the Norwegian mine Svea Nord onto a transport ship. The protest took place in Norway
The prices of food crops like wheat, rice and maize will rise between 121 per cent and 194 per cent by 2050 due to climate change, according to a study. This, coupled with decreased yields of these crops, will threaten food security of some 1.6 billion people in South Asia and render 25 million more children malnourished by 2050.
<p>This new short film highlights plight of the Maldives, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to sea level rise. Produced by TVEAP in collaboration with COM+ Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development, it is based on an exclusive interview with President Nasheed of Maldives. <br /> <object width="425" height="344">
The blogosphere has been having a field day with <span>global</span> warming's apparent decade-long stagnation. But clima<span>to</span>logists are finding that although <span>global</span> warming has indeed paused, it is likely <span>to</span> return with a vengeance within a few years.