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In several areas in the state, the income of families who are solely dependent on agriculture for their livelihood has declined several-fold, as with climate change there has been a change in the rainfall pattern and also there has been a decrease in the average rainfall,' said Sabita Devi, co-convenor and senior researcher of the Assam-based Centre for Environment, Social and Policy Research...

A recently published study offers a global review that shows the extent of the increasing length of the fire season and the increasing fire weather severity. It gives a 'state of the science' assessment of global fire and climate change and an indication of the strength and trajectory of change in future fire regimes...

How do people adapt to changes in flooding? They develop different systems of production,' scientist Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez said. 'The problem is that most programs that are designed to help people adapt to climate change focus on products, while the people themselves are looking for different forms of adaptation'...

Small Island Developing States will this week seek to plot a course to a safer and more resilient future as part of their preparations for a major conference next year. The Inter-regional preparatory meeting for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which opens today in Bridgetown, Barbados, brings together nations from the three SIDS regions – Caribbean, Pacific and the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean South China Seas (AIMS) – to forge the way forward.

World-leading efforts to unite climate change adaptation and disaster risk management into one overarching strategy will provide ‘more bang for your buck’ a senior Pacific development leader says. The Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Dr Jimmie Rodgers, said future generations would judge today’s leaders on how bold their actions – not words – were in building safer and more resilient communities and countries.

Más de 100 representantes de siete municipios(Cartago, Zarzal, Tulua, Bugalagrande, Obando, Andalucía y la Victoria), iniciaron el pasado 6 de julio en las instalaciones de la Universidad del Valle en el municipio de Cartago, el Diplomado en Gestión de Riesgos con énfasis en Reducción de Riesgos en Centros Urbanos y Adaptación al Cambio Climático...

PCM realiza talleres para fomentar inversión en gestión de desastres por parte de gobiernos locales. Se sensibiliza a autoridades municipales sobre la importancia y los beneficios de ejecutar obras de prevención...

Yousry Abushady, a senior inspector at the IAEA explains that three factors are closely considered by any country when building a nuclear reactor: active geological fault lines, water availability and population density. 'There has not been a single case in history where a nuclear reactor has been directly affected by an earthquake,' he says. 'Nuclear power stations cope well with earthquakes'...