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Displaying 135 of about 1329 resultsIf the entire desert were covered in wind farms and one fifth in solar panels, daily average rainfall would more than double
By Nellie Peyton
Large-scale wind and solar farms could more than double rainfall in the Sahara desert, "shocked" scientists said as the region grapples with widespread hunger caused by recurrent drought.
In a simulated model,…
By Alex Gray
This year has seen extreme weather conditions wreak havoc across the globe, from record-breaking temperatures to heavy rain causing major floods.
The International Organization for Migration says that climate change will force an increasing number of people to move as extreme weather events become more intense, sea levels contin…
By Raúl Alfaro Pelico, Sarah Bashford Lynagh, and Jennifer Ehidiamen
When it does not rain, people starve.
This is the reality for many farmers in the Sahel—and across the globe—and the situation is only becoming more dire due to climate change. Yet, during a recent visit to Garin Madougou, a village in Dokoro, a district in Niger, we saw th…
By Gina Ziervogel
African Centre for Cities (ACC) has released a new paper Unpacking the Cape Town Drought Lessons Learnt by Associate Professor Gina Ziervogel. The report was commissioned by the Cities Support Programme, within National Treasury in the South Africa National Government, to ensure that lessons learned from Cape Town…
Researchers at the University of Freiburg warn of the effects of summer drought and competition for ground water
A team from the Institute of Forest Sciences at the University of Freiburg shows that the extraction of ground water for industry and households is increasingly damaging floodplain forests in Europe given the increasing intensity and length…
By Basudev Mahapatra
Community interventions to dig wells and ponds has enabled farmers to fight drought and halt the trend of desertification in Odisha’s Balangir district
Byasadev Bhoi of Pandel village in Odisha’s Balangir district was excited while showing the pond the villagers have dug. The pond has changed their lives by ensuring wa…
By Ian Wright Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University; Jason Reynolds, Research Lecturer in Geochemistry, Western Sydney University
This is the second of two articles looking at the increasing reliance of Australian cities on desalination plants to supply drinking water, with less emphasis on the alternatives of water recycl…
By Lieutenant Commander Oliver-Leighton Barrett, US Navy (Retired)
Most of the story-lines driving the international community’s understanding of the Venezuelan crisis center on the Maduro regime’s gross mismanagement of the economy, and its clean break from democratic laws and tradition. That’s understandable, not least as the most “proximat…
Effective water management is crucial for both Thailand’s large agricultural sector and for its fast-developing high-tech manufacturing sector. Cloud Asset’s Digital Solution for Water Management integrated over 40 databases and data from satellites and over 30,000 sensors to provide Thailand with near real-time monitoring & management with short-te…
By David Cogswell
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“The main contribution to us getting through the drought was a change in attitude toward consumption of water and how we could get by with less water as citizens,” said [Tim Harris, CEO of Wesgro, the official tourism, trade and investment promotion agency for Cape Town and the Western Cape] . “You saw this incredible cha…
This publication explores the contributions of science and technology in Asia. The first part evaluates the advancement of the science and technology in disaster risk reduction in 11 countries.
The second part of the report features 28 case studies and good practices on applying science and technology in different field of disaster risk reduction…
This report presents the results from a survey conducted in December 2015 by WFP in Eastern Indonesia to assess the impacts of drought related to El Niño on household food security, water access, agriculture, and livelihoods. It also identifies the most impacted populations in terms of geography and livelihoods and provides recommendations to the Govern…
Water Policy Research Highlight 02:
Holiyas (also known locally as bhungroos) are relative simple, locally applied, groundwater recharge and subsurface storage systems and may hold the potential to mitigate exposure and smallholder farmers to floods and droughts.
This document presents an overview of the IWMI-Tata Program, which assessed Holiyas and bh…
This study aimed to explore the existing body of knowledge with regards to resilient techniques in water supply where water availability is limited – in particular drought-prone areas – and to prepare the technical basis for the evaluation of WASH projects developed in areas that are (potentially) exposed to drought.
The work is intended for program man…
PNAS Plus January 12, 2016 vol. 113 no. 2, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523397113:
This study uses new remote-sensing and modeling techniques to assess changes in the canopy water content of California's forests from 2011 to 2015. Approximately 10.6 million ha of forest containing up to 888 million large trees experienced measurable loss in canopy water content d…