Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Kong Meta Last year’s drought caused a nationwide crisis, with harvests ruined, forest fires raging and many rural families struggling to feed themselves. As experts take stock of the impact, […]
Warming raises threat of global famine repeat
Global warming is increasing the chances of worldwide harvest failure on the scale of the tragic 19th-century drought and famine that claimed 50 million lives. Awaiting aid in drought-ravaged Somalia in 2011. Image: […]
Warmer winter predicted due to El Nino
October 19, 2018 Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi Winter this year could be comparatively warmer. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday predicted that El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral conditions are prevailing […]
El Nino effect to cause warmer winters
The El Nino effect will fully descend in India by November and December, where the impact will be maximum in the country. According to IMD experts, the natural cycle will gradually move […]
El Niño set to return before end of the year: Kemp
LONDON (Reuters) – El Niño conditions are developing across the Pacific Ocean, with meteorologists now putting the probability of a full event developing by the end of the year at almost 75 […]
Australia’s weather bureau sees 70 per cent chance of El Nino in 2018
The weather outlook comes at a time when dry conditions have wilted crops and pasture in Australia’s each coast, leaving many farmers struggling to survive.PHOTO: AFP October 9, 2018 SYDNEY (REUTERS) – […]
Could Indonesia’s mega-fires return in 2019?
Scientists warn that an El Niño is highly likely this winter, potentially testing anti-fire measures recently put in place by the government September 24, 2018 Joe Sandler Clarke Scientists are warning that […]