A new study prepared by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the amount of rain in tropical regions may increase in the future due to global warming.
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15Jun/17
Tag Archives: Climatology
07Feb/17
Tropical leaves could reduce cow emissions
Mexican researchers discover that tropical leaves could reduce methane emissions in cows, a major contributor to climate change. Bob Mezan reports. Continue reading
12Dec/16
Scientists say methane surge requires ‘urgent attention’
Researchers are warning that combating climate change also requires more controls over the rate at which methane in the atmosphere is now rising.
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10Nov/16
Morocco climate change conference sheds bright light on Africa
Governments meeting in Morocco are expected to produce action plans on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement to slow global warming and one of them is the need to develop Africa, a continent that continues to pay the price for the industries of developed nations. In Paris, they spoke about the need to electrify African countries among other actions but this conference is expected to show how they will do that despite the funding and technical challenges behind implementation.
19Jan/16
U.N. food agency says 14 million face hunger in southern Africa
The World Food Programme (WFP) has raised concern about food security in southern Africa where an estimated 14 million people are facing hunger following prolonged dry spells that led to a poor harvest last year. The weather condition is said to have been worsened by El Nino, a pattern which typically brings drier conditions to Southern Africa and wetter ones to East Africa.
09Oct/15
Thousands of Zimbabweans receive food aid as drought and hunger bite
Foods rations distributed to 30,000 people in Zimbabwe following drought and crop failure. The problems in Zimbabwe are being felt across the region, threatening the lives of millions of people who are facing hunger this year and next because of drought and erratic rains linked to an expected “super” version of the El Nino weather pattern.
01Apr/15
California governor orders 25 pct reduction in water usage statewide
California Governor Jerry Brown, acting in the face of a devastating, multiyear drought, orders first statewide mandatory water restrictions.
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