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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Summer Drought Limits the Positive Effects of CO2 and Heat On Plant Growth in Future Climate
Although the rain this summer has been pouring down over Denmark, most scientists agree that global temperature increases will intensify periods with summer drought already in 2075. The large scale project
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Floods hit rice crop in West Bengal
Heavy rainfall has led to floods in several districts of the state, putting the rice crop in West Bengal in jeopardy. Although the state was hopeful of reaching record production in 2011-12 backed by good rainfall in the first half of the monsoon, prolonged rain has inundated vast areas in several districts of south and north Bengal.
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Britain says 400,000 Somali children at risk of death
Britain said on August 17 that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a further
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Two Oklahoma Indian Tribes Contest State for Water Rights
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have filed a federal lawsuit to protect water rights they say derived from long-ago treaties and to prevent exports of water from their traditional homelands
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Rain Helps Some Drought-Hit Areas, But Not Enough
A band of showers has offered some relief to parched areas from Kansas to Mississippi, but the historic drought causing billions of dollars in losses in the South is showing no signs of abating soon.
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World Bank Calls Horn Of Africa Famine Manmade
The famine in the Horn of Africa is manmade - the result of artificially high prices for food and civil conflict, the World Bank's lead economist for Kenya Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters Tuesday. "This
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Contractors Are Accused in Large-Scale Theft of Food Aid in Somalia
Beyond freelance gunmen, Islamist militants, cholera, malaria, measles and the staggering needs of hundreds of thousands of starving children, aid agencies scrambling to address Somalia’s famine now may
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Power generation at Damodar Valley Corp rises to 2,000 MW per day
Power generation at Damodar Valley Corporation has increased following incessant rains in the past ten days. “The record rainfall in the catchment areas of DVC helped increase in water level at the
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Drought Deepens In South; Texas Driest In Century
A devastating drought deepened over the last week in many areas, spreading through more of the Plains and going into the Midwest as triple-digit temperatures baked already thirsty crops and livestock.
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Climate change impact assessment of water resources of India
<p> The present study has been taken up to quantify the possible impact of the climate change on the water resources of Indian river systems within the constraints of the uncertainty of climate