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. …
An El Nino event active since March 2015 will almost certainly last through 2015 and is likely to extend into early 2016. The intensity of this event is increasing with a peak expected in the last quarter of 2015 and there is a significant chance that it may become one …
The south-west monsoon has started showing the El Nino impact. With rains vanishing, at least 12 districts of Odisha have reported deficit rainfall in the first month itself, notwithstanding the overall positive picture shown by the State. What is more alarming, the prospects of good showers are not great till …
Parallel studies of nesting colonies in Mexico and the United States show that Elegant Terns (Thalasseus elegans) have expanded from the Gulf of California Midriff Island Region into Southern California, but the expansion fluctuates from year to year. A strong inverse relationship between nesting pairs in three Southern California nesting …
The worst drought in five years is creeping across the Caribbean. From Puerto Rico to Cuba to St Lucia, crops are withering, reservoirs are drying up and cattle are dying while forecasters worry that the situation could only grow worse in the coming months. Thanks to El Niño, a warming …
Brewing for many years, India's agrarian crisis is now reaching its tipping point due to "vague" government policies, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today said and warned if predictions on El Nino turns out to be true the economic damages will be severe. A new report of 'Down To …
Brewing for many years, India's agrarian crisis is now reaching its tipping point due to "vague" government policies, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today said and warned if predictions on El Nino turns out to be true the economic damages will be severe. A new report of ‘Down To …
There is a tremendous desire to attribute causes to weather and climate events that is often challenging from a physical standpoint. Headlines attributing an event solely to either human-induced climate change or natural variability can be misleading when both are invariably in play. The conventional attribution framework struggles with dynamically …
There is a tremendous desire to attribute causes to weather and climate events that is often challenging from a physical standpoint. Headlines attributing an event solely to either human-induced climate change or natural variability can be misleading when both are invariably in play. The conventional attribution framework struggles with dynamically …
Global climatic conditions have turbocharged the monsoon and given it the momentum to take it up to Kashmir in three to four days, a week ahead of schedule, and accelerate agricultural activity in the grain-bowl states of Punjab and Haryana on the say. Rainfall in June is almost certain to …
North Korea faces further food shortages as production in the country's main growing region is expected to be cut in half, the United Nations food agency said. U.N. representatives visited the country's breadbasket in North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae provinces on June 10 and found that potato, wheat and barley …
The monsoon is likely to remain strong through the month of June, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday, as another storm system developed over the Bay of Bengal, promising widespread rain across central and south India over the next four-five days. As on June 18, the monsoon was 10% …
PUNE: Less rainfall in July, August and September seems more likely now, as a fresh forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has indicated that El Nino will get stronger during this period of monsoon. This forecast is in tandem with the department's earlier prediction of a deficient rainfall this …
Marathwada, which has the second largest storage capacity in dams after the Pune region, has left with the lowest water storage of 5% across all regions of the state on Tuesday. The large, medium and small dams in Marathwada have a collective storage capacity of 7,603 million cubic metres of …
Figures index : From the study "Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient". Original Source
Bad news is good news; media revel in news of crisis and catastrophe. No news is bad news; some space has to be filled with news if anyone is going to look at accompanying views and ads. But if there is no news, pseudo-news can be invented, also known as …
The monsoon has got off to a good start after a slightly delayed onset, with widespread showers over the past five days taking the countrywide rain tally to 13% above normal so far this month. The surge in rains has been aided by a favourable weather system in the Indian …
Australia has slashed forecast production levels for wheat, cotton and other agricultural commodities in 2015-16 as the El Nino weather phenomenon grips the country and dries out farmland. Meteorologists warn the current El Nino, the second in five years, will persist until the end of the year. "We should see …
A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Nino arrives to parch paddies across Asia. Global inventories were already heading for an eight-year low, including stockpiles so spoiled that top exporter Thailand may sell most for industrial use. Now, the first …
Global food systems are increasingly susceptible to acute disruption and systemic shocks could lead to food price rises, food riots and changes in stock market values. The global food system is increasingly vulnerable to acute disruptions that have the potential to cause widespread economic, social and political implications, according to …
However, autumn yields may not fare so well due to the uncertain conditions brought about by El Nino, the warming of the sea’s surface in the Pacific Ocean. The weather pattern can cause uncertainties the agricultural sector could do without. El Nino will continue to strengthen this summer and will …
