Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country.
By Suzanne Goldenberg Some of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganga, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, a study of global waterways has warned.
Indigenous peoples from as far apart as Lapland and Micronesia are meeting in Alaska to forge a common position on climate change.
CHENNAI: You can tend a garden, recycle materials, ride a bicycle more often than drive a car to contribute in a personal way to the cause of Planet Earth which was imperilled by climate change, Beth Middleton, research ecologist with the National Wetlands Research Center, Louisiana, US, said in her Earth Day lecture on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: The number of people affected by climate-related crises over the next six years is projected to rise annually by 54 per cent to reach 375 million. This could overwhelm the humanitarian aid system, international agency Oxfam said on Wednesday.
Reliable medium range prediction of monsoon weather is crucial for disaster preparedness. Weather in tropics, controlled by fast growing convective instabilities is, however, intrinsically less predictable than that in extra?tropics.
Washington: The flow of water in the world
Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a new comprehensive study of global stream flow. The study, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), suggests that in many cases the reduced flows are associated with climate change. The process could potentially threaten future supplies of food and water.
Identifying varieties of various crops that can grow in higher temperatures will be vital in the years to come Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 21, 2009, 0:41 IST
KOHIMA, April 20: Nikheli has been selling vegetables (indigenous to Nagaland) since 1989. After 20 years of good business, she