California and other southwestern states have suffered through multi-year droughts in the past, but how does climate change figure into what's happening now? Can scientists separate the effect of rising greenhouse gas levels on the current drought from other factors? To answer these questions, we ...
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Weather forecasters will soon provide instant assessments of global warming’s influence on extreme events.Weather forecasters will soon provide instant assessments of global warming’s influence on extreme events.
As the only legally binding international treaty focused on land management and drought, the UNCCD is one of the three Rio Conventions, alongside those addressing climate change and biodiversity. Over the years, it has successfully raised global awareness and mobilized global commitments to combat dese...
In what ways does climate change negatively impact us? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that health effects can include respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and deaths related to extreme weather events, changes in food-and water-borne illnesses, and other infect...
Communities around the world are experiencing impacts scientists see as connected to the warming atmosphere and ocean. Climate change has intensified rainfall and tropical storms, deepened the severity of droughts, and increased the impact of storm surges. Last year broughttorrential monsoonrains that...
country — extreme weather, heat waves, deeper and longer droughts, crop failures, strengthening wildfires, sea level rise — and they are disproportionately borne by the most vulnerable among us,” former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice in the fight against climate change,said in a ...
Nakate paints a picture of life in her home country of Uganda -- which faces prolonged droughts, landslides and flooding stemming from climate change -- and clarifies the need for energy-rich, high-emitting nations to provide climate finance for Africa and accelerate the continent's sustainable ...
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000 refugees from Somalia and South Sudan crossed into the drought-stricken areas of Kenya and Ethiopia,” they wrote in a report posted on their website. “Climate change has made events like the current drought much stronger and more likely; a conservative estimate is that such droughts have...