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Displaying 15 of about 20 resultsGENEVA, 31 October 2012 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom spoke to the opening session of this week's extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress which is discussing the implementation plan and governance model for the Global Framework for Climate Services.
Ms. Wahlstrom congratulated the World Meteorological Organization on the initiat…
A wildfire that started on Thursday is forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes in Southern California. "The connection between climate change and the frequency of wildfires is undeniable", states the author of the article published in Allvoices. By 2050, lands burned by wildfires every year will at least double, according to the US Forest Se…
By Alex Kirby
US farms could be devastated by climate change, says a study by the country’s Department of Agriculture. It says farmers could lose millions of dollars to rising temperatures, faster-growing weeds, smaller yields and new pests.
LONDON, 7 February – Climate change may force American farmers to alter where they grow crops and to spend mill…
“What we’re seeing is a window into what global warming really looks like,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton University. “It looks like heat. It looks like fires. It looks like this type of environmental disaster,” reports Alertnet. It is the elderly, the very young and the ill people that are the most vulnerable to the high tempera…
GENEVA, 22 May 2013 - The inventor of the world's first interactive digital globe that graphically depicts the vulnerability of our planet to disasters today challenged global policymakers to show more leadership in tackling the growing risks facing populations worldwide.
"What is important is not the technology but our vision for the future of the pla…
Canadian resource managers take several factors into account, including economic and ecological impacts, when deciding whether to extinguish wildfires, or let them die out naturally, reports Vancouver Sun.
“As a matter of fact, fire has some very good ecological effects, (but only) in the correct area at the correct time,” said Lyle Gawalko, head of fi…
By Cristina Rojas
A warmer, drier climate is expected to increase the likelihood of larger-scale forest disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, disease and drought, according to a new study co-authored by a Portland State University professor.
The study, published Oct. 19 in the journal Nature Communications, sought to provide a more co…
Having received another set of fossil awards on the side of the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, Canada "remains cool about a crisis that is already dramatically intruding on people’s lives," according to the Vancouver Sun. So, in response to a 2008 report from Ottawa’s Natural Resources predicting an increase in flooding due to heavy rainfa…
GENEVA, 2 May 2012 - This Saturday, from drought-stricken Mongolia to Himalayan communities threatened by glacial melt, Climatedots.org will bring people together to hold rallies and remind everyone of the extreme weather events that are happening in their communities because of climate change.
A click on Climatedots.org takes any interested visitor to…
GENEVA, 17 April 2013 - Outer space isn't a place organizations usually think of when looking to build resilience and reduce disaster risks. Yet, this is exactly where participants' minds were when experts were invited by UNISDR and the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to discuss the incorporation of space technology into the post-2015 disas…
Suzy Hamilton reports for the Nelson Daily, on a three-year climate change study conducted by West Kootenay (British Columbia, Canada) scientists.
The study revealed that forest fires and insect infestations due to stressed conditions would also be significant.
She writes, a series of workshops with local foresters and other stakeholders identified ba…
A new satellite data centre in Namibia will help farmers prepare for droughts, floods, bushfires and pests, reports SciDevNet.
"We can predict where the problems are popping up with regard to wildfires, grazing for livestock, water scarcity, or viability of crops", said Marina Coetzee, a researcher at EOSA-RTC and a senior lecturer at the polytechnic.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre press release
Geneva/Oslo - Over 42 million people across the world were forced to flee due to disasters triggered by sudden-onset natural hazards in 2010, according to a new study by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)’s Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). In 2009, 17 million people…
Bolivians fight to adapt in finance vacuum
Bolivia will be battered on five fronts by climate change, according to a new report published by Oxfam International today. The report underlines what is at stake at UN climate talks in Barcelona and an EU-US Summit in Washington today.
The report, Climate Change, Adaptation and Poverty in Bolivia, shows how…
By Dr Wenju Cai, Dr Kai Yang and Dr Benjamin Ng
In its late spring and summer of 2019-20, Australia experienced one of its most devastating bushfire seasons on record. Now known as the “black summer”, the burning of more than 18m hectares caused billions of dollars in economic damage.
Whilst Australia was experiencing drier-than-normal conditions, Eas…