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. …
greenhouse gases and other pollutants could trigger large, abrupt and potentially disastrous climate changes. This warning is given in a new report by the us-based National Academy of Sciences. According to the report, if the planet's climate is being forced to change as is currently the case
For more than a decade now, Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather conditions: from heat waves to cyclones; from droughts to floods. Calamities have been visiting the state with alarming regularity. Out of the last 100 years, the state has been dis-aster- affected for 90 years: floods have …
each year, hatcheries release millions of chinook into the River Columbia in the us in a bid by state game managers to save wild stocks of this salmon. The fish there is so beleaguered that many of its populations, threatened with extinction, are protected under the us Endangered Species Act. …
About 80 tropical cyclones (with wind speeds equal to or greater than 35 knots) form in the world’s waters every year. Of these about 6.5% develop in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. Since the frequency of cyclones in the Bay of Bengal is about 5 to 6 times …
an international team looked at the seasonal growth rings in 28 specimens of 500 centuries old Fitzroya cupressoides , a conifer found in South America to trace a picture of the world's climate 50,000 years ago. The scientists were able to study the trees as a result of two natural …
the effects of climatic phenomenon on human health may be more widespread that previously considered. Recent research, led by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, has now linked El Ni
corals across the world may be getting afflicted by diseases transmitted through the dust coming out of deserts in Africa. Moreover, the dust may also be the reason behind a global rise in respiratory infections. This has been proposed by Dick Barber of the Duke University in Beaumont, North Carolina, …
"During the period March- June, when temperatures are generally high over the Indian subcontinent, any further rise in temperature becomes a matter of concern to all the people. Such spells of high temperature sometimes claim a heavy toll of human lives as well as livestock. Spells of these abnormally hot …
