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Displaying 135 of about 1105 resultsThis report provides a summary of the state of climate, extreme events and their socio-economic impacts in Asia region in 2021. The 2021 report is the result of collaboration between NMHSs in the region, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and other specialized agencies of t…
Unprecedented heatwaves — as seen this year — are the greatest direct climate-related health threat to Europe’s population. Heatwaves already account for numerous deaths and illnesses. This burden is set to increase without more climate change adaptation and mitigation measures. Heat-health action plans, urban greening, better building design and adjust…
A team of researchers used ancient climate data to predict how the summer monsoon may change in the North American southwest.
The North American southwest has been suffering through weather extremes in recent years ranging from searing heatwaves and scorching wildfires to monsoon rainfalls that cause flash floods and mudslides. As temperatures around t…
What Fiji is attempting to do is unprecedented. For years, politicians and scientists have been talking about the prospect of climate migration. In Fiji, and in much of the Pacific, this migration has already begun. Here, the question is no longer if communities will be forced to move, but how exactly to do it.
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At present, 42 Fi…
Pastoralists rely primarily on livestock for their livelihoods. This makes them more vulnerable to climate-related shocks, and therefore they have the highest poverty rates in Somalia. When drought hits, their animals either die or are sold at rock bottom prices. And yet Somalia’s livestock trade contributes to almost 80% of the country’s foreign c…
Animals can only endure temperatures within a given range. The upper and lower temperatures of this range are called its critical thermal limits. As these limits are exceeded, an animal must either adjust or migrate to a cooler climate.
However, temperatures are rising across the world at a rapid pace. The record-breaking heatwaves exper…
Floods changed her community’s way of life, says Constance Okollet, chairperson of the Osukuru United Women Network (OWN), a local women’s group in Osukuru Village, in Eastern Uganda’s Tororo District.
“Our village was an easy life. We had a lot of food. Our bodies were healthy. We used to eat wild food,” said Okollet.
In 2007, Osukuru rural village e…
Over a short period in May and June, intense rains lashed Assam, in northeastern India, and Bangladesh. As well as landslides, several rivers in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin burst their banks. The swiftness with which floodwaters submerged towns and villages caught residents and officials off-guard.
Scientists say the problem will only in…
The ICRC has explored how climate change can be relevant for combatants through its updated Guidelines on the Protection of the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict, outlining obligations in international humanitarian law, while the International Law Commission (ILC) has also recently adopted Draft Principles on Protection of the Environment…
Due North, is an assessment of the costs of climate change to infrastructure across all of Northern Canada. Northern Canada faces a double threat of already- inadequate infrastructure in a rapidly warming climate. Northerners currently lack access to safe and reliable infrastructure that people in the rest of Canada take for granted. The warming cl…
Virtual Webinar hosted by the Paris Committee on Capacity Building (PCCB) Network, organized by UNDP and FAO with the support of IKI.
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Building on over seven years of joint collaboration (through the IKI-funded NAP-Ag and SCALA programmes), UNDP and FAO are organizing this webi…
A foul-smelling, voracious, wide-spread pest could become even more ubiquitous with climate change.
A recent modelling study found that changing weather could increase suitable habitat for the brown marmorated stink bug in the United States by 70%. The study, published in Pest Management Science, draws on data from a three-year stink bug monitorin…
New results show average sea level rise approaching the 1-foot mark for most coastlines of the contiguous U.S. by 2050. The Gulf Coast and Southeast will see the most change.
By 2050, sea level along contiguous U.S. coastlines could rise as much as 12 inches (30 centimeters) above today’s waterline, according to researchers who analyzed nearly three de…
This study considers consider the integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the anticipatory action decision-making processes. A fuller understanding of the current state of Indigenous Climate Services (ICS) in weather and seasonal climate forecasting amongst some of the targeted communities seemed essential before such an integration could be done…
Rising ocean levels threaten dozens of Africa’s rapidly expanding coastal metropolises, resulting in shrinking land area, coastal flooding, more powerful storm surges, and the need for better mitigation.
African coastlines have experienced a steady rise in sea levels for four decades. At the current pace, sea levels are projected to rise by 0.3 meters…