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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Defying Climate Deal Like Appeasing Hitler: UK Minister
World leaders who oppose a global agreement to tackle climate change are making a similar mistake to the one made by politicians who tried to appease Adolf Hitler before World War Two, a British government minister said on Thursday. Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne said governments must redouble efforts to find a successor to the United Nations Kyoto Protocol on emissions, althoug
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Food Crisis in Somalia Is a Famine, U.N. Says
The United Nations on Wednesday officially declared Somalia
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Changes have reduced food security to doles scheme: NAC members
The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council may not have officially commented on the government's draft Food Security Bill
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Navy To Help Climate Scientists In Pirate-Infested Waters
Climate scientists have turned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy robotic measuring devices in the Indian Ocean where pirates have made the area too dangerous for researchers. About a quarter of the Indian Ocean is now off limits to climate scientists trying to complete a global network of deep ocean devices that gather data crucial to climate change studies and weather foreca
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Somalia: Food Airlifted to Rebel Areas
The United Nations said Monday that it had started airlifting food aid to rebel-held parts of drought-hit Somalia and that Islamist insurgents had abided by a pledge to allow relief workers free access. The United Nations has described the drought as an emergency, and said some 10 million people were affected in the region near the borders of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
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Drought cripples southern US farms
The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nine months have been the driest in Texas on record. The Lone Star state is at the epicentre of a once-in-a-generation drought stretching from Arizona to Florida.
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Millions At Risk Of Cholera In Ethiopia, WHO Warns
Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection, causes watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is not promptly given, according to the United Nations agency. "Ov
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Crop disease to add to east Africa's woes
While those experiencing drought hope for rain, it could bring a worse problem with it: an aggressive strain of the fungal crop disease yellow rust.
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U.N. Says Struggling With Growing Somali Exodus
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was struggling to keep up with an exodus of hungry Somali refugees and many emaciated children were dying of malnutrition along the way or after arriving in neighboring countries. More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa now need assistance to survive the crisis sparked by the worst drought in decades, U.N.