Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
Drought
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Indian Ocean Linked To Australian Droughts
SYDNEY - Droughts in Australia have traditionally been linked to El Nino events in the Pacific Ocean, but a new study says the key driver of major droughts has been a warming and cooling cycle in the Indian Ocean.
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Argentines pray for rain to end worst drought in decades
It is early evening and Pablo Roller, an Argentine farmer, is heading to church. Parishioners are preparing a traditional procession of a statue of the Virgin and he is going along to pray - for rain. "I don't know what else to do," he says.
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Drought, Heat Killing Trees In Western N.America
Date: 23-Jan-09 Country: US Author: Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON - Trees in the western United States and Canada are dying twice as quickly as they did just 30 years ago, with rising average temperatures almost certainly to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.
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Monsanto Seeks FDA Approval For Drought-Tolerant Corn
Date: 08-Jan-09 Country: US Author: Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY - Monsanto Co said Wednesday it filed for U.S. regulatory approval for what could be the world's first drought-tolerant corn, a product that agricultural companies around the globe are racing to roll out amid fears of global warming and the needs of a growing population.
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Dry days of Bundelkhand
Madhya Pradesh Right to Food Campaign and Apda Niwaran Manch presents a field report on the status of Social Welfare Schemes in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh.
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Drought in Chhattisgarh
This paper deals with the historical transition of Chhattisgarh from a non-drought affected abundance to almost annually drought affected and with serious scarcity demanding huge relief to mitigate the consequent miseries. It would assess the risk of areas, land and soil, crops and plants and list out points emerging from the exercises.
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City profile: climate and disaster resilience
This study makes a comparative analysis of 15 cities in the Asian region, including some megacities, medium sized cities, and smaller cities, in their capacity to absorb stress, to manage it and recover from it.
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WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2008
This latest WMO statement contains information for 2008 on global temperature, regional temperature anomalies, global precipitation, droughts, flooding and storms, La Ni
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Assessment and management of meteorological drought for crop planting in Tarai region of Uttarakhand
The distribution of rainfall in the Tarai region of Uttarakhand is very erratic in space and time and occurrence of occasional droughts is not uncommon.
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The humanitarian costs of climate change
Using existing international databases that track disaster occurrence and humanitarian costs, this research attempts to improve understanding of how climate change may affect