This joint WFP and Action Against Hunger publication presents the impacts of El Niño in LAC, highlighting the emergency response and resilience activities taken to mitigate the effect of climate shocks in the region. The publication underscores the significance of adequate anticipation, preparedness, and response to climate emergencies in LAC. …
The mass coral bleaching event smashing the Great Barrier Reef has severely affected more than half its length and caused patches of bleaching in most areas, according to scientists conducting an extensive aerial survey of the damage. “The good news with my last flight is that I found 50 reefs …
El Niño years can have a big impact on the littlest plants in the ocean, and NASA scientists are studying the relationship between the two. In El Niño years, huge masses of warm water – equivalent to about half of the volume of the Mediterranean Sea – slosh east across …
California is in a unique predicament, and it’s one of the reasons the state continues to suffer from long-term exceptional drought. Nearly all of its precipitation comes during winter, and small diversions in storm tracks can make or break annual rain or snowfall. If a rainy season is particularly dry …
SÁBANA DE GUACUCO, Venezuela—Desperate for water, construction worker Pedro Pirela and his neighbors recently laid a nighttime ambush. Alerted by the roar of a water truck that supplies nearby hotels, they blocked the street and forced the driver to stop, then siphoned off his precious cargo. Mr. Pirela and his …
Records show that 2015 has been the third warmest year ever recorded since 1901 The ongoing heat wave is expected to intensify in the coming days with day temperatures likely to remain above normal in parts of north-west, central India and also parts of south India. According to Pune-based Indian …
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) group president Akinwumi Adesina says the institution has released a relief package of US$549 million in support of 14 countries most affected by the ongoing drought in eastern and southern Africa. In a statement issued in Lusaka, Mr Adesina said AfDB acknowledged the severe impact …
India's latest monsoon forecasting model predicts good rainfall this year, which will end severe water shortage that is threatening power supply and cheer farmers who have been devastated by two consecutive droughts. The Climate Forecast System (CFS) of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) predicts mostly normal and sometimes …
Washington, D.c. — The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it is providing nearly $68 million for emergency food assistance, to reach approximately 2.5 million Sudanese as well as refugees from South Sudan and other neighbouring states. In a press statement on Friday, USAID says this assistance will be …
The impact of the Indian and Atlantic oceans variability on El Niño–Southern-Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon is investigated through sensitivity experiments with the SINTEX-F2 coupled model. For each experiment, we suppressed the sea surface temperature (SST) variability in either the Indian or Atlantic oceans by applying a strong nudging of the SST …
The monsoon is set to bring cheers to Indian farmers this year after the first back-to-back shortfall in rainfall in three decades ravaged crops. Showers during the four-month rainy season starting June will probably be normal as the El Nino is seen returning to neutral conditions by the middle of …
It’s hard to imagine the tropical Pacific lacking for water. But the small island states in the Western Pacific are in the midst of a life-threatening drought caused by El Niño with no end in sight. The Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau have all declared states …
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people in northern Somalia may die as a result of the El Nino-related drought and a shortage of aid, and the poor rains that are forecast are likely to make things worse, the United Nations said on Thursday. Some 1.7 million people, 40 …
Authorities are reminding the people to further exercise caution against extreme heat, expecting the Philippines to experience this April twin onslaught of the dry season’s peak and the prevailing drought-driving El Nino phenomenon’s brunt. “We must prepare for such simultaneous occurrence,” said senior weather specialist Analiza Solis from the state-run …
Philippine police opened fire as a protest by thousands of rice farmers who lost their crops turned violent on Friday, killing one and wounding about a dozen, a leader of a farming group said. About 6,000 farmers blocked a portion of the main highway in North Cotabato province on the …
Right now, it’s still early days; but latest global climate models hold out hopes of a normal — even if slightly delayed — southwest monsoon. In the last few weeks, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, one of the worst drought affected in the country, has received fair amount of precipitation. …
Scientists have declared that key portions of the Great Barrier Reef — over a thousand miles long and the “largest living structure on the planet,” according to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority — are now seeing the worst coral bleaching in recorded history. “We’re seeing very severe bleaching …
We have addressed the question of whether the massive deficit of 42% in rainfall over the Indian region in June 2014 can be attributed primarily to the El Niño. We have shown that the variation of convection over the Northern part of the Tropical West Pacific (NWTP: 120–150E, 20–30N) plays …
THE United Nations and its development partners are committed to assisting Zimbabwe tackle food shortages caused by the El Nino-induced drought, and have to date mobilised $80 million to complement Government mitigatory efforts, UN Resident Co-ordinator Mr Bishow Parajuli has said. Drought has ravaged most parts of the country, especially, …
February 2016 was the most anomalously warm month — 2.43° Fahrenheit (1.35° Celsius) warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980 — in 135 years of record keeping, according to NASA. February record warm February 2016 was the warmest February on record by a substantial margin as well — 0.8° …
“Stunning,” “wow,” “shocker,” “bombshell,” “astronomical,” “insane,” “unprecedented”– these are some of the words climate scientists have used to describe the record-shattering global surface temperatures in February 2016. It’s difficult to see any ‘pause’ or slowdown in the global warming over the past 50 years. To put the current temperatures into …
