As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
There has been no reverse in the trend of global warming and there is still consistent evidence for man-made climate change, the head of the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday. A slow-down in the average pace of warming at the planet's surface this century has been cited …
According to the World Resources Institute (WRI) many, if not most of the world's rivers are stressed. Determining a systems water stress is based upon measuring the ratio of total water withdrawals to the available renewable supplies within the catchment area. Rivers are an indispensible resource for our communities and …
Forecasters warn of drought, but Met dept insists there’s no cause for panic Weather scientists from Australia to the US are seeing ominous signs of a ‘monster El Nino’ that heightens the risk of a drought in South Asia this year, but India’s weather office is snarling at these forecasters …
The Philippines' devastating Typhoon Haiyan and drought in Australia were among recent weather extremes consistent with man-made climate change, the UN's weather agency said on Monday. "Many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human-induced climate change," Michel Jarraud, secretary …
The drought hit situation has been prevailing in ten dehs of Thana Bola Khan and Manjhand Talukas of Jamshoro district and the district administration is approaching to Sindh Government for declaration of these dehs as calamity hit areas. This was informed by the Deputy Commissioner Jamshoro Suhail Adeeb Bachani while …
States have been advised to consult this National Crisis Management Plan (CMP) on drought (2014) while managing any probable drought/rainfall deficit situation.
The Supreme Court on Monday called for a report as to how many famine-stricken people of Thar had been provided relief and assistance so far. The three-member SC bench, headed by Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, was hearing of a suo moto case regarding the death of over 100 children …
पाकिस्तान के हिन्दू बाहुल्य थारपर्कर जिले में अकाल के चलते होने वाली मौत का आंकड़ा 160 तक पहुंच गया है। इस इलाके में रोजाना दो से तीन बच्चों की मौत कुपोषण और उससे जुड़ी बीमारियों के चलते होती है। सिंध प्रांत के एक बड़े हिस्से में थार का मरूस्थल फैला …
Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal has warned that Thar-like drought may hit half of the country if new water reservoirs are not built. He said the planning commission would hold a Pakistan Water Summit at Islamabad on March 20 in collaboration with the ministry of water and power to …
After the loss of more than 150 children’s lives in Thar famine, the Sindh chief minister has finally come into action by snatching the portfolio of Relief Department from Makhdoom Jameel Zaman, who is the son of PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim. Relief commissioner Lala Fazul Rehman was also removed …
There is a greater possibility of an El Nino weather pattern emerging this summer, Japan's weather bureau said on Monday, after previously forecasting a 50% chance of the phenomenon that is often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts. El Nino — a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific — …
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Saturday announced Rs100 million relief package for the drought-hit Tharparkar district of Sindh. According to a statement issued here, the chief minister expressed sympathy with the people and the government of Sindh at the occurrence of the natural calamity. The relief package includes …
5 more children die of famine in Tharparkar Monday, March 10, 2014 - Tharparkar—At least five more children died of malnutrition in Chachro tehsil of drought affected Tharparkar district in Sindh on Sunday. Chachro is among those areas of famine affected Tharparkar where the Sindh government hasn’t started relief operation. …
The Middle East's driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers' livelihoods blighted, U.N. experts and climatologists say. Varying degrees of drought are hitting almost two thirds of the limited arable land across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian territories …
President Barack Obama, who has vowed to make fighting global warming a focus of his remaining years in office, yesterday unveiled initiatives to mitigate what aides say are the effects of an already changing climate. The proposals, spread throughout Obama’s 2015 budget blueprint to Congress, include an overhaul of the …
The prolonged drought in Sri Lanka has affected the tea cultivation and reduced the tea production by about 50 percent ,the industry sources say. Sri Lanka Tea Board says that the drought has affected tea plants in the plantations in the hill country as well as in the low country. …
Christian Aid publishes a report showing the devastating effects of climate change, with communities worldwide, particularly in worst hit poorer countries, being forced to change their way of life. While record-breaking floods in the UK received massive media coverage, along with broad acceptance that climate change was to blame, the …
Data and analysis from the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO show further warming of the atmosphere and oceans in the Australian region, as is happening globally. This change is occurring against the background of high climate variability, but the signal is clear. Air and ocean temperatures across Australia are now, …
Global warming will reduce the world's crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, according to a draft UN report, Japanese media said on Friday. The document is the second volume in a long-awaited trilogy by …
US space agency NASA yesterday said it would launch a water-related satellite in collaboration with India’s ISRO. The NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar mission is a part of its plan to launch in the next seven years a series of satellite related to water and drought, the agency …
