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 …
Singapore and Malaysia are grappling with some of the driest weather they have ever seen, forcing the tiny city-state to ramp up supplies of recycled water while its neighbor rations reserves amid disruptions to farming and fisheries. Singapore, which experiences tropical downpours on most days, suffered its longest dry spell …
Silicon Valley companies are employing low and high tech measures, from robotics to 'hydrozoning', to help save water As weather reports suggest some light relief for California from the record-breaking drought that's hit the state, it's largely business as usual for Silicon Valley tech giants like Adobe, eBay, Google and …
Tony Abbott unveils ‘refined’ assistance package for NSW and Queensland after his recent tour of the regions Drought-stricken farmers in parts of NSW and Queensland are set to receive a $320m lifeline from the federal government. Prime minister Tony Abbott has unveiled an assistance package which includes increasing access to …
NASA scientists plan to use images shot from space and within the Earth's atmosphere to help California monitor one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, officials said on Tuesday. Scientists said they would deploy imaging tools to measure snowpack and groundwater levels and use a host of other …
Natural disasters including droughts, floods and earthquakes cost China 421 billion yuan ($69 bln) in 2013, official data showed on Monday, nearly double the total in the previous year. China has always been prone to natural disasters but a changing climate is causing more extreme weather, which hits food production, …
Ambassador for Japan in Sri Lanka Nobuhito Hobo recently signed an aid agreement with programme unit chief & Acting Director Civic Force, Megumi Kuwana, for disaster management in Sri Lanka. The aid package amounts to US $. 291,005 ( Rs. 37. Million). The ambassador said the ‘Capacity Building Project on …
Bitter cold in the United States might appear to contradict the notion of global warming, but with Britain's wettest winter and another hot summer in Australia, extreme weather events have pushed climate change back on the political agenda. A spluttering world economy had sapped political interest in the billion-dollar shifts …
Rural communities where residents rely on wells are at particular risk, as contaminants in the groundwater become more concentrated with less water available to dilute them, top state health officials said at a legislative hearing on the drought. "The drought has exacerbated existing conditions," said Mark Starr, deputy director of …
Bitter cold in the United States might appear to contradict the notion of global warming, but with Britain's wettest winter and Australia's hottest summer, extreme weather events have pushed climate change back on the political agenda. A spluttering world economy had sapped political interest in the billion-dollar shifts from fossil …
Strategic adaptation needed to a reduction in rainfall, which could close farms or shift them towards wetter coastal areas Australia needs a better response to drought in the face of climate trends that will transform agricultural regions and see many farms disappear, the CSIRO has warned. The government’s science agency …
Abbott government urged to better articulate dangers of climate change as Climate Council highlights rising number of hot days The government has been urged to better articulate the dangers of climate change after a report that shows the frequency of heatwaves in parts of Australia has already surpassed levels previously …
Insufficient Northeastern monsoonal rains had resulted in the paddy crop in the five districts of the Northern Province falling below targeted production during the 2013/14 Maha cultivation, Northern Province Director of Agriculture S. Sivakumar said. He said that it had been planned to cultivate 236,303 acres with paddy during the …
President Barack Obama proposed Friday a $1 billion fund to mitigate the impact of climate change in the United States, and unveiled financing to combat drought parching swathes of California. The president landed in the Central Valley area and met farmers who have lost livestock and seen once fertile lands …
Australian climate models indicate an increased chance of an El Nino weather pattern emerging later this year, the country's weather bureau said on Tuesday, raising the risk of drought and floods in some parts of the world. The forecast comes after the U.S. Climate Prediction Center last week also said …
California's senate leader is preparing a $644 million emergency drought relief bill designed to quickly fund shovel-ready projects to combat the state's severe water shortage, according to a draft of the bill. The wide-ranging effort would fast-track water supply projects, speed up funding for expanded use of recycled water and …
The Republican-led House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would roll back federal rules to provide more water for farmers and municipalities in California's Central Valley as the state copes with its worst drought in decades. Backers said the legislation would provide drought relief by permitting federal and …
President Barack Obama's administration will announce on Wednesday the formation of seven "climate hubs" to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme weather conditions and other effects of climate change, a White House official said. The hubs will act as information centers and aim to help farmers and ranchers …
The punishing drought that has swept California is now threatening the state's drinking water supply. With no sign of rain, 17 rural communities providing water to 40,000 people are in danger of running out of water within 60 to 120 days. The State Water Project, the main municipal water distribution …
The United Nations appealed on Monday for more than $US2 billion ($2.28 billion) to feed and care for a record 20 million people across Africa's Sahel belt, but aid workers said they feared donor fatigue and a weak global recovery may prevent them from reaching the target. Conflicts in Mali, …
The state government has decided to spend Rs 40.32 crore in Nashik district and Rs 123.12 crore in Nashik division as part of the drought alleviation programme to build chain cement weirs in various areas. Nandgaon, Sinnar and Yeola have been allocated Rs 3.6 crore each as part of the …
