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. …
El Niño may be causing the spread of the dengue virus. Scientists have found that this climate phenomenon has a significant role when it comes to the outbreak of haemorrhagic fevers. The number of cases of dengue fever throughout the world is rising rapidly, propelling it to the status of …
Japan's meteorology agency said on Wednesday that the El Nino weather pattern, which is often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts, had somewhat weakened and that the weather would likely return to normal by summer. The Japan Meteorological Agency said last month that the El Nino phenomenon peaked between November …
Human emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are causing the Earth to warm. We know this, and we have known about the heat-trapping nature of these gases for over 100 years. But scientists want to know how fast the Earth is warming and how much extra energy is …
The European Union has mobilized €170 million in emergency support for Ethiopia to tackle the ‘El Niño’ induced drought, Vice President of the European Commission Kristalina Georgieva announced on Wednesday.A statement by the EU said the support which comes from the European Development Fund will strengthen life-saving emergency assistance and …
With temperatures remaining above normal since November, this winter could well be the warmest ever recorded not only in North India, but across the country. India Meteorological Department (IMD) director general Laxman Singh Rathore said Januray too saw above normal temperatures and the trend is likely to continue in February. …
When El Nino gives way to its little sister, La Nina, this year, as meteorologists are forecasting, the disruptive weather patterns may still be unable to disperse the bearish clouds that have hung over U.S. grains markets for years. Corn and soybean futures have gone haywire in past transition years, …
Ethiopia is struggling from its worst drought for 30 years with millions in dire need of life-saving aid, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Sunday. At least 10.2 million people need food aid in Ethiopia, a figure the UN has warned could rise sharply, as "forecasts indicate that it could double …
London — The US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) on Saturday warned that drought conditions caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon are likely to cause further deterioration in food security in Mozambique. The Mozambican government estimates that 176,000 people are currently in need of food aid. However, …
Above-average temperatures are set to linger for the upper half of the North Island and many other regions over the next three months, as a strong El Nino keeps its grip on the country's climate. But farmers have breathed a sigh of relief that the ocean-driven system has so far …
As fears increase over the 'explosive' spread of the Zika virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned there could be potential for it to grow further due to the impacts from El Nino. The WHO could be set to declare Zika a global emergency after the virus has been …
Ministry of Natural Resources Energy and Mining Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services alongside Department of Disaster Management Affairs have taken a new approach in Managing Climate change effects originating from El Nino (the warming of waters in the Pacific Ocean) through Disaster Insurance Plan amount to 30 Million …
The El Niño weather phenomenon is causing millions of dollars in losses in Cuban agriculture, affecting the island’s crops of sugar cane, tobacco, rice, coffee and vegetables, local experts are reporting in state-run media. El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, which was categorized as “very strong” between November 2015 and January …
This document serves to outline El Niño’s major implications on food and nutrition security in the southern Africa region and highlights immediate and long-term preparedness requirements. Further, it provides country profiles to give contextual national information for Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia …
Despite the well-coordinated response already under way to offset the impacts of an El Niño-induced drought in Ethiopia, the United Nations humanitarian wing has warned that the scale of the developing emergency exceeds resources and that more funding is urgently needed to ensure food distribution and child protection amid ongoing …
Severe bleaching can be lethal to reef systems, triggering long-term degradation through the erosion of underlying structures A coral scientist has warned that early official optimism that the Great Barrier Reef will be spared the worst of a predicted worldwide coral bleaching event is misplaced. The Queensland minister for the …
Statistically, it’s crystal clear that we keep setting temperature records due to human-caused global warming No, this isn’t another article about how damn hot 2015 was. Although just between us, I may have lost a bet to climate seer Joe Romm because he correctly predicted 2015 would blow 2014 out …
India's monsoon is in no danger of catastrophic collapse in response to global warming and air pollution, two atmospheric scientists said today, refuting earlier predictions that the monsoon could shut down within 100 years. The scientists at Yale University in the US who used computers to model the Earth's atmosphere, …
The joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and World Health Organization (WHO) Climate and Health Office has issued a briefing paper about health and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as part of a wider WHO effort to review the current health risks and responses of the El Nino event in …
An El Nino stimulated dry spell, characterised by extremely hot and dry weather conditions currently ravaging most parts of southern Africa has left people and livestock in Matabeleland North province in dire straits. As a crippling drought sets in, the little rains that fell in some parts of the country …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners predict a major global increase in health consequences of emergencies this year due to El Niño. El Niño is a warming of the central to eastern tropical Pacific Ocean which affects rainfall patterns and temperatures in many parts of the world but …
