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Displaying 60 of about 329 results“Risk reduction remains the core of Bhubaneswar’s development vision,” says Piyush Ranjan Rout, an urban management practitioner and co-founder of Local Governance Network, an NGO that nominated the city for the Sasakawa Award, in a report by Manipadma Jena for AlertNet.
By Jade Boyd
Capsule neural network predicts extreme weather with WWII-era analog forecasts
Rice University engineers have created a deep learning computer system that taught itself to accurately predict extreme weather events, like heat waves, up to five days in advance using minimal information about current weather conditions.
Ironically, Ri…
Forecasts of an extreme winter in Mongolia have triggered the release of funding to reduce its impact on vulnerable herders. This is the first time this early action funding mechanism developed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has been used anywhere.
On 2 January, Mongolia’s National Agency for Meteorology…
Government and State agencies are better prepared than ever before to respond to extreme weather events should they occur this winter, Minister for Defence Simon Coveney has said, according to the Irish Times.
“Government is and has to continue having conversations around the state of preparedness for climate change considerations and adaptation strate…
Geneva - The year 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The first nine months, January to September, tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period on record, with a global land and ocean surface temperature of about 0.48 C (0.86 F) abo…
The IFRC said today that with well over half of Mongolia now facing at least a ‘high risk’ of a third consecutive winter dzud, it’s augmenting its operation for the 2016–17 disaster to support preparedness and capacity building with the Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS); this follows “close consultation with the affected population and relevant authori…
By Garth Heutel, Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia State University; David Molitor, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nolan Miller, Professor of Finance and Julian Simon Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Climate change is increasing the frequency and strength of some t…
Press Release No. 966
Geneva/Doha - The years 2001–2011 were all among the warmest on record, and, according to the World Meteorological Organization, the first ten months indicate that 2012 will most likely be no exception despite the cooling influence of La Niña early in the year.
WMO’s provisional annual statement on the state of the global climat…
By Tim Nelson and Joeal Gilmore
The US state of Texas has this month experienced some of its coldest weather on record. Houston recorded a temperature of -10.6℃, which is around 20℃ below average. And Dallas-Fort Worth recorded its lowest-ever temperature of -18.9℃.
It appears Texas infrastructure was not designed to deal with such extreme low tempera…
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Geneva – The World Meteorological Organization’s Annual Statement on the Status of the Global Climate said that 2011 was the 11th warmest since records began in 1850. It confirmed preliminary findings that 2011 was the warmest year on record with a La Niña, which has a cooling influence. Globally-averaged temperatures in 2011 were estima…
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O Canal Lisboa é um meio de informação e divulgação, propriedade do Turismo de Lisboa, com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, que visa informar os habitantes e os visitantes da cidade sobre temas de interesse geral, municipal, cultural e turístico. Através de uma rede alargada de 18 vídeo painéis, proporciona uma ampla cobertura das…
In 2011, freezing weather resulted in power outages and slick roads across Texas. In 2015, Winter Storm Goliath brought frigid cold and over 8 inches of snow in some areas to Western Texas. In 2017 freezing rain, sleet, and snow iced over roads, downed trees and triggered power outages in northwestern Texas.
Nonetheless, the February 2021 snowstorm in…
In a clear sign of continuing long-term climate change associated with record atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 have been confirmed as the four warmest years on record.
A consolidated analysis by the World Meteorological Organization of five leading international datasets showed that the global average surface te…
Heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is the number one cause of death worldwide. A study published in the European Heart Journal by scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and colleagues from a range of other Bavarian institutions shows that the risk of suffering a heat-induced heart attack has increased significantly in recent years. During the same…
By Akshit Sangomla
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While usually there are three-five strong Western Disturbances (WD, extra tropical storm systems) in December, there was only one in last one. The feebly active WDs that did come in limited themselves to the hilly states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and did not influence the weather in the northern…