Winter snow on the mountains surrounding the Hex River Valley in the Western Cape. Mountain snowfall generally means freezing conditions across the rest of the country. (Mary Alexander /CC BY SA 4.0) Click graphic to enlarge. South Africa’s winter is mostly pleasant sunny weather with cloudless...
The Economics of Adaptation to Future Climates in South Africa: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic AnalysisReport No. 6 (Long Term Adaptation Scenarios Flagship Research Program, South Africa Department of Environmental Affairs, 2014). Alton, T. et al. Introducing carbon taxes in South Africa.Ap...
Building Energy Saving Retrofit in Liu Lian Primary School / FORWARD STUDIO. Image © Tianpei Zeng Evolving urban conditions call for an evolving builtscape, and retrofits have been a key mechanism to allow buildings to adapt and respond to new needs. Amidst global environmental concerns,climate...
South Africa - Soil Types, Climate, Regions: South Africa contains three major soil regions. East of approximately longitude 25° E, soils have formed under wet summer and dry winter conditions; the more-important soil types there are laterite (red, leac
We present TCI results for 18 tourist destinations across South Africa. With mean annual TCI scores for the period 1995鈥 2015 spanning 76.5 for Port Nolloth to 93 for the Pilansberg, the comparatively favourable climatic conditions in South Africa relative to much of Europe and North America is...
Investing in public health 投资公共卫生事业 A good baseline of health among the population, through the provision of healthcare, affordable healthy food and food education, and incentives to exercise more helps people develop ...
Flowchart of GAMI database creation of papers published between 2013-2019 on actions undertaken by people in response to climate change or environmental conditions, events and processes that were attributed or theorized to be linked, at least in part, to climate change. Extended Data Fig. 2 Summa...
Due to the favorable conditions for agriculture, this zone is the food basin of the world. Strong warming has been observed in the last three decades. Central Europe, including Poland, is also experiencing this. The forecasts for Poland also predict further warming, as well as changes in the...
In SSA, loss of lives, reduced food production, biodiversity loss, water shortages, and reduced economic growth have already occurred [20] and are accelerating. Despite drier and hotter conditions overall, the intensity and erosivity of rainfall when it occurs is likely to increase, triggering ...
"Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up." Is climate change really making hurricanes worse?, Climate, Vox, Umair ...