The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
The world's relief agencies will be overwhelmed by a rise in the number of people affected by climate-related disasters by 2015 unless the quantity and quality of aid improves, a report said on Tuesday. "There is nothing inevitable about a future in which greater numbers of people die and are …
Mango production in the region is appeared to fall around 25 to 30 percent this season due to the continuous drought like climatic condition frustrating the farmers and the traders concerned. Horticulture scientists and the farmers said that the green mangoes are falling abnormally for the last couple of days …
Mango production in the region is appeared to fall around 25 to 30 percent this season due to the continuous drought like climatic condition frustrating the farmers and the traders concerned. Horticulture scientists and the farmers said that the green mangoes are falling abnormally for the last couple of days …
The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday six emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are a danger to public health and welfare. Here are excerpts from the EPA's so-called endangerment finding, which opens the way for possible regulation of climate-warming pollution. * "The scientific evidence clearly indicates that …
European Union emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for stoking global warming fell by 1.2 percent in 2007, paradoxically aided by a mild winter that cut heating demand, EU data showed on Friday. Emissions by the 27-nation bloc in 2007, before the current global economic downturn, dipped to 9.2 percent below …
India's annual monsoon is likely to be 96 percent of the long-term average, which would make it the worst season in five years, although the near normal forecast raised hope for economic support and bumper crops. While the Indian Meteorological Department's predictions have often varied substantially from the actual June-September …
In what could be a historic moment in the struggle against climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday confirmed what most people have long suspected but had never been declared as a matter of federal law: carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a danger to public health and …
It is thought that around 5000 hectares of paddy fields in the Uva region have been devastated due to the prolonged drought in the Maha season this year. The Uva Province Agricultural Department; said 800 hectares of paddy cultivation in Dambagalla, 450 in Nanapurawa , 65 in Kotagama, 250 in …
Although persistent drought in West Africa is well documented from the instrumental record and has been primarily attributed to changing Atlantic sea surface temperatures, little is known about the length, severity, and origin of drought before the 20th century. We combined geomorphic, isotopic, and geochemical evidence from the sediments of …
Hundreds of farmers, farm workers and local elected officials walked along dusty roads in the Central Valley on Thursday, part of a four-day march to protest federal cutbacks in water supplies.
For at least 3,000 years, a drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, have seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world
The recent decades-long drought that killed 100,000 people in Africa's Sahel may be a small foretaste of monstrous "megadroughts" that could grip the region as global climate change worsens, scientists reported on Thursday. Droughts, some lasting for centuries, are part of the normal pattern in sub-Saharan Africa. But the added …
Russia's greenhouse gas emissions rose by a tiny 0.3 percent in 2007 to the highest in more than a decade, sharply lagging an oil-backed surge in economic growth, official data showed. Russia emitted 2.192 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007, up from 2.185 billion in 2006, according to …
India's monsoon rains, vital for the farm-dependent economy and the success of major crops, may exceed the norm this year if the El Nino system that brings drier weather fails to appear, as expected, forecasters say. That would be good news for a country hit by the global recession, ensuring …
New Zealand expects to allocate up to 1 million emissions permits to forestry owners by next month, a fraction of the 8 million set aside for issuance this year to the sector, the government said on Thursday. This is the first time any country in the Asia-Pacific has issued national …
New Zealand will better its target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol because of drought and reassessment of its forests, a government report said on Wednesday. The country was now expected to produce around 9.6 million tonnes less of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases than allowed …
California will receive $260 million of $1 billion in US economic stimulus funds slated for water infrastructure, US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday. The announcement comes amid California's third consecutive year of drought, a weakening state economy and a lack of consensus in the state …
Water scarcity means big growth for companies that purify, transport and distribute the world's most essential resource, but a global recession that has halted new projects and put off price increases means water investors will have to wait for the boom years. Water, cheap and indispensable, has long been prized …
