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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsYoung volunteers in the east African nation are spreading the word about extreme weather such as drought as climate change worsens.
Drought warning bulletins issued in English, limiting uptake
Youth volunteers translate alerts for radio and local use
Locally adapted warnings seen as key to preventing disasters
KATILU, Kenya - Sitting under an aca…
Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years.
Newborn babies are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures. They have a…
Exposure to extreme heat increases both chronic and acute malnutrition among infants and young children in low-income countries – threatening to reverse decades of progress, Cornell research finds.
Linking survey and geocoded weather data over more than 20 years, a study of more than 32,000 West African children ages 3-36 months found that average heat…
“We are climate activists!” “We are ready to fight disasters! We are ready to save lives!”
The shouts echo throughout the hall at Biriiri high school in Chimanimani district, Manicaland, eastern Zimbabwe.
It is the rallying call of the school’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) club, funded by EU humanitarian aid. Here, the children’s action has a h…
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The World Bank helps rehabilitate more than 700 weather-resilient classrooms across the country to protect investments in human capital.
The World Bank investments include transfer of technical and knowledge skills necessary to build resilient infrastructure to ensure sustainability.
An additional 3,000 classrooms across the countr…
If carbon emissions are limited to slow temperature rise, as many as 6,000 child deaths could be prevented in Africa each year, according to new estimates.
A team of international scientists, led by the University of Leeds in collaboration with researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), have shown that thousands of hea…
In many cities across Africa—a continent that is urbanizing faster than any other—the buildup of disaster and climate risks has gone largely unnoticed, and therefore unmanaged. A key roadblock for urban resilience planners and practitioners is the scarcity of reliable risk data, including data both on the location of people and asse…
Southern Madagascar has been hammered by two years of drought that has left 1.5 million people – half the region’s population – facing extreme hunger.
"Some infants coming here don’t know how to eat."
Children are particularly at risk. An estimated 500,000 children under the age of five are suffering acute malnutrition, and 110,000 of them are severel…