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Displaying 30 of about 1329 resultsMost Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts than those recorded over the last century.
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Standing under a shady tree drooping with pomegranates late last year, Brad Simmons, a retired metal fabricator who has lived in Healdsburg, California, for 57 years, showed off his backyard orchard. Along with the apple, cherry, and peach trees, he’s packed one pear tree, two lemon trees, and a century-old olive tree into his bungalow’s compact garden.…
The depleted Panama Canal needs new water sources as climate-driven drought spotlights global warming risks to world's waterways.[...]We depend on rainwater," said Ilya Espino de Marotta, the canal's first chief sustainability officer, who was appointed in January and is also charged with reducing the waterway's carbon footprint."You used to see a dry y…
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Specifically, the Job holder shall perform the following tasks:
• Assist the Head of Division in the overall management of the activities of the Climate Change and Desertification Control Unit;
• Assist in preparation of reports, budget and work programmes related to the functioning of the Unit, in consultation with t…
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Cambodia’s agriculture remains a backbone for the livelihoods of four million Cambodians who depend on the sector. However, the dependence on rain-fed agriculture and reliance on a single rice cropping cycle makes this important sector extremely vulnerable to any changes in rainfall patterns and longer term changes in the climate. The imp…
The interim Secretariat of the International Drought Initiative (IDI), the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management - RCUWM (under the auspices of UNESCO), supported by the Iranian Ministry of Energy and the Iranian IHP National Committee in collaboration with a number of UN agencies, international and regional organizations and key national agenc…
The 11th annual climate prediction applications science workshop (CPASW) will convene in Logan, Utah, and focus on “Climate Information for Natural Resource Management.” This theme will integrate broad aspects of climate information applications in water, land, forest, wildlife, habitat, energy, and other natural resources management. Climate is a cross…
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Premier volet de la stratégie du Conseil fédéral, version provisoire:
Cette stratégie fixe le cadre d’une démarche coordonnée au niveau fédéral pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Elle doit permettre à la Suisse d’exploiter les opportunités offertes par les changements climatiques et de minimiser les risques qu’ils induisent, to…
This case study documents the process of early action taken by Start Network members in anticipation of drought in Timor-Leste in 2017. Alert 158 for Timor-Leste was submitted in May 2017, in anticipation of a potential drought from November 2017. Timor-Leste had suffered a severe El Nino in 2015- 2016, so a second drought would have been detrimental. F…
This special water edition of the WMO Bulletin draws attention to the programmes and activities of WMO in helping Member States and Territories to find solutions to the problems they face across the entire water resources value chain. The contents will provide the reader with an appreciation of the depth of commitment being made by WMO hydrological and…
The El Niño event in 2015/2016 was one of the strongest since at least 1950. Through surveys and interviews with key informants, this report finds that businesses in the capital cities of Zambia, Botswana and Kenya experienced major disruption to their activities from El Niño related hydroelectric load shedding, water supply disruption and flooding…
The report explores how climate change is influencing the water cycle globally as well as in Australia. It describes the economic importance of the Australian water sector, the changes that are already occurring because of climate change, the health implications of these changes, the water energy nexus, and the impacts of changes in the water cycle…
Tanto la región Centroamericana, como Nicaragua, presentan altos niveles de sensibilidad ante los diferentes estímulos climáticos tales como la frecuencia, simultaneidad, intensidad y alcance de múltiples amenazas, en particular las inundaciones, aumento del nivel del mar, eventos meteorológicos extremos, deslizamientos de tierra, sequías e incendios fo…
This paper summarizes the magnitude and impacts of the 2012–2016 California drought. It then reviews innovations arising from the drought in the larger historical context of water management in California. Lessons for California and for modern drought management are then discussed. Droughts in modern, well-managed water systems serving globalized e…
The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission was established by His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC, Governor of South Australia on 23 January 2018. The purpose of the Royal Commission and the report is to investigate the operations and effectiveness of the Murray-Darling river basin system. The report contains 111 findings and 44 recommendat…