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Recent extreme weather events are destroying standing crops as well as causing other impacts such as climate-triggered pestilence.
The digital inventory will aid future data collection efforts, scientific research on floods, disaster risk reduction, loss and damage estimates and pave the way to develop financial products to tackle disaster risks.
Extreme weather conditions, from massive flooding to severe water shortages, have rocked cities and small communities alike in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon this year.
Almost eight years after Typhoon Haiyan barreled into Busuanga Island in the western Philippines, the lesson it left is still etched in the mind of the Indigenous women in the village of Quezon on Busuanga’s northern coast.
Future water stress can be overcome, but work needs to start now before extreme weather events, including mega droughts and floods, hit.
As flood risk increases in India, experts suggest demarcation of zones in floodplains and stronger state policies to reduce damage by floods.
It is now scientifically established that the frequency and intensity of heatwaves in India are increasing and thus it is crucial that we develop a national heat code.
The trend in sea-level rise for the tide gauge data of Lakshadweep Islands during 1981-2005 indicates a sea-level rise of 0.5 mm/year.
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