VNA January, 2020 Vietnam grappled with nearly 4,000 disasters and incidents in 2019, an increase of 57.9 percent compared to the previous year. Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam grappled with nearly 4,000 disasters and incidents in […]
How do El Niño events affect Mexico?
Excerpts from Geo-Mexico La Niña and El Niño are two major periodic disturbances to the normal oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns over the Pacific Ocean which have widespread effects around the world. The normal […]
India: a turbulent tale of rivers, floods and monsoons
Philip Ball plunges into a chronicle of the subcontinent’s human and environmental histories. Philip Ball December 12, 2018 The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh remarked on a singular cultural gap in his […]
Ecuador suspends work on flood-control wall opposed by Peru
September 24, 2018 By Lakeland Staff Writer Ecuador has suspended construction of a flood-prevention wall along its southern border with Peru, the two countries said on Thursday, after Lima protested against the project […]
Socio-Economic Impacts of El Niño
Comprehensive list of recent and historical El Niño / La Niña impacts. Read Reports to the Nation on our Changing Planet: El Niño and Climate Prediction (PDF), and find more impacts information in […]
HURRICANE WARNING
Lack of El Niño to see nations blasted by huge storms The United States and rest of the Americas will be battered by unusually strong and frequent hurricanes due to the lack […]
UPDATE 1-Ecuador suspends work on flood-control wall opposed by Peru
JULY 13, 2017 Reuters LIMA, July 13 (Reuters) – Ecuador has suspended construction of a flood-prevention wall along its southern border with Peru, the two countries said on Thursday, after Lima protested […]