Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
Drought
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Global investment in clean energy hits $243bn: UN
Global investment in clean energy rose to a record $243 billion dollars last year with the vast majority concentrated in the world's top 20 economies, the United Nations said Wednesday. Many countries
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Famine in the Horn of Africa: Never again?
East Africa is stalked by famine once more despite scientists' early warnings of disaster. Can the lessons be learned?
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Expression of multiple resistance genes enhances tolerance to environmental stressors in transgenic Poplar (Populus × euramericana ‘Guariento’)
Commercial and non-commercial plants face a variety of environmental stressors that often cannot be controlled. In this study, transgenic hybrid poplar (Populus × euramericana ‘Guariento’) harboring five
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Clouds Don't Cause Climate Change, Study Shows
Clouds only amplify climate change, says a Texas A&M University professor in a study that rebuts recent claims that clouds are actually the root cause of climate change. Andrew Dessler, a Texas A&M
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Does Kenya need GM crops as it battles famine in the Horn of Africa?
In the midst of a dire need to feed millions of people facing hunger because of drought, Kenya's newly passed Biosafety Act allows for the importation of GM crops - but at what cost? As the most severe
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Texas fires and drought cost farms $5.2bn
Wildfires are raging across central Texas, compounding drought that has caused $5.2bn in agricultural losses and led ranchers in the largest cattle-producing US state to rush to slaughter. At the weekend,
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ICDDR,B to help fight cholera in Somalia
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, will provide its help to famine-hit people to fight cholera in Somalia. A
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ICDDR,B to help famine-hit Somalians fight cholera
Aimed at helping the famine-hit people of Somalia fight cholera, a team of experts from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) reached neighbouring Kenya on September
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In The World's Breadbasket, Climate Change Feeds Some Worry
The United States, the breadbasket and supplier of last resort for a hungry world, has been such an amazing food producer in the last half-century that most Americans take for granted annual bounteous
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U.N. Officials Say Famine Is Widening in Somalia
The United Nations announced Monday that Somalia’s famine had spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were