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Human activities - such as mining, oil and gas extraction, dam-building and tapping into geothermal energy - have set off unexpected quakes in these stable regions.
A parallel session on the second day at the ongoing 19th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change heard that rising temperatures, droughts and declining precipitation trends are likely to hit pastoral system as well as small scale farmers especially hard, since they depend on rain for their survival...
Mr. Alexander Alusa, the climate change policy advisor at the Kenyan Prime Minister’s office called upon the government and other stakeholders in the fight against climate change to direct their focus on implementation process and join the western countries in the fight...
A new paper claims that supporting local initiatives and institutions may be the most effective way to support climate change adaptation in Africa...
“Extreme climate events such as floods and droughts that have far reaching socio-economic impacts, are common in the Horn of Africa” said Professor James Kiyiapi of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources....
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