Liberia country and climate development report
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia’s development trajectory through the lens of the country’s vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia’s development risks
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia’s development trajectory through the lens of the country’s vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia’s development risks
The potential impact of climate change over the next century has now been mapped. An animated map of the earth from space illustrating the impacts can be
We thought wide-scale food shortages were behind us. Just a few years ago, most countries - with the exception of some in Africa - were looking as if they would be capable of adequately feeding their people, and the rich world was trying to figure out what to do with its food mountains. How things have changed. Droughts, high oil prices, changing diets, the rush to grow biofuels and other factors have caused shortages of most of the major food crops. On every continent there is concern over high food prices, and in some places even rioting. (Editorial)
What do a student in New York, a farmer near Mexico City, a family in London and a nurse in Bangkok have in common?
Insects in the tropics have been found to be on the wrong side of global warming, says Kirtiman Awasthi
In September 2006, Tara, a 36-metre schooner crewed by eight scientists and engineers, moored up on the Arctic sea ice and spent the next 15 months moving slowly with it across the top of the world. The expedition wasn't aiming for the pole: it was an ambitious attempt to record what is happening to the polar climate in unprecedented detail.
Estuarine mangrove forests are a priceless environmental, cultural and aesthetic legacy. And ours have begun to drown
Not just humans, climate change will also impact the microscopic world of bacteria, fungi and other microbial populations that support life on earth. "Microbes perform a number of critical functions for ecosystems... we are only starting to understand the impact that global climate change is having on them," said Kathleen Treseder of the University of California.
The alarm bells are ringing louder by the day as Earth's climate changes rapidly due to emission of greenhouse gases. We must remember that carbon dioxide emitted today will add to climate change for 150 years. Traditional knowledge can be harnessed to halt climate change, writes Ketaki Saksena
This report demonstrates that climate change will continue to affect the lives and production systems o f the millions in India who reside in high-risk rural areas, with a mounting human toll that falls disproportionately upon the poor.
This paper uses annual variation in temperature and precipitation over the past 50 years to examine the impact of climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. It find three primary results. First, higher temperatures substantially reduce economic growth in poor countries but have little effect in rich countries.