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… areas. Green open spaces mitigate this so-called urban heat island effect. Integrating this ‘blue-green’ … 04/25/india-record-heat-march-april 37 … ps://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/04/25/india-record-heat-march-april … ps://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/04/25/india-record-heat-march-april …
… Summary Diesel-powered thermal power plants, a waste-heat recovery system and solar power plants, all owned by the … diesel-powered thermal units, and the balance from waste-heat recovery and solar plants. There are three main consumer … and reporting from outer islands via the NTA 6.5 short wave radio. In the process of standardizing assessment forms …
This report summarizes MENAdrought findings on the underlying causes of vulnerability to drought impacts in Lebanon. It serves as a link between the impact assessment and policy planning process. Lebanon is water-rich compared to other Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations, which historically has led government officials to place low priority on d…
… an estimated 64 percent of the US has been hit by extreme heat and water stress of different degrees.94 Despite the … region.199 The climate crisis has also contributed to a wave of rural migration to urban areas, or to areas with more … • Rain/precipitation • El Niño/La Niña • Heat • Cold • Temperature • Weather • Natural disaster …
This article complements the existing knowledge by considering complex patterns of droughts through their compound attributes. Focusing on the reference period 1981–2016, it adopts the well-known Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) to assess drought occurrence and formulates an analogous new index on interannual yield anomalies, t…
… livestock mortality from vector-borne diseases and heat stress. In the first quarter of 2016, 54% of the …
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… yield loss assessment, which captures both abiotic (e.g. heat and water stress) and mechanical (crop damage caused by …
… to farmers in the implementation of field trials for heat, drought and salinity tolerant crops and livestock … monitoring of food quality standardsduring droughts and heat extremes. M66 MoH to raise awareness of local health … include messages about increased risk during drought and heat waves in public hygiene awareness campaigns. M69 Water …
… et al., 2019; FAO & IBRD/World Bank, 2018). Moreover, heat waves are expected to occur ten times more frequently … land degradation and desertification. Meanwhile, heat waves could increase both the psychological stress and … failures over the next 30 years Future drought episodes, heat waves, and other extreme events will further challenge …
… manifesting in increasing frequencies of droughts, floods, heat waves, dry spells, and extreme rises in temperature, and …
… leads to higher temperatures, enhancing the urban heat island effect. The hazard of wildfires increases and …
… have hidden impacts on human health and well-being such as heat stress, food insecurity, migration, social instability, …
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… between irreversible loss, e.g., fatalities from heat-related disasters, and recoverable damage, e.g., damages …
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… deadly floods in parts of northwestern Europe and the heat and associated fires in northwest USA and southwest …

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