ScienceDaily (Oct. 14, 2010) — Rivers and streams supply the lifeblood of ecosystems across the globe, providing water for drinking and irrigation for humans as well as a wide array of life forms in rivers and streams from single-celled organisms all the way up to the fish humans eat. But humans and nature itself are […]
By Hir Joseph, LafiaThursday, 14 October 2010 04:45 A team of experts from Network of Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team (NEST), one of the groups building Nigerians’ adaptation to the effects of climate change, has warned that sand dunes and the harsh arid climate in Sahel area Toshua in Yobe State of North-Eastern Nigeria, are another […]
By Rob Crilly in IslamabadPublished Date: 14 October 2010 MAN-MADE climate change was a major cause of devastating floods in Pakistan this year, shifting monsoon rains away from flood defences and into areas of the country incapable of dealing with the deluge, according to Pakistani scientists. More than 1,700 people died and millions lost […]
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB, The Associated Press10/8/2010 3:32:42 AM ET DES MOINES, Iowa — Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said. Bruce […]
(Ohio State University) Researchers looking at corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have found records linking a profound shift in the depth of the division between warm surface water and colder, deeper water traceable to recent global warming. The finding is the first real evidence supporting what climate modelers have been predicting as the […]
Contact: Beth King, kingb@si.edu 12 October 2010 (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Bocas del Toro Research Station and Galeta Point Marine Laboratory are reporting an anomalous sea temperature rise and a major coral bleaching event in the Western Caribbean. Although the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, issued an advisory […]
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWirePublished: October 12, 2010 The first in a four-part series on Pakistan’s flood disaster. NOWSHERA, Pakistan — “Allah was angry with us when the rain came.” Sumaira Bibi unhesitatingly leans on theology to explain what happened here on the night of July 29, when her world was drowned. Her husband was […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2010) — The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers conclude in the first major study to ever examine “evapotranspiration” on a global basis. Most climate models have suggested that […]
By Aftab Bukhari, The Express TribuneOctober 11th, 2010. JACOBABAD: Floodwater might be receding from most areas in the province but the Sindh-Balochistan National Highway still stands flooded. Two months ago a massive breach developed in the Tori Bund and water rushed towards Jacobabad district, flooding almost 80 per cent of it. When the flood got […]
By Geoff RileyThursday, August 26, 2010 This BBC news article explains how extreme weather conditions in Russia this summer is hitting GDP growth. The Russian economy has always been sensitive to changes in the world prices of commodities such as oil and gas (two major exports). In this sense, Russia is more exposed than the […]
