Aye Sapay Phyu June 2015 Meteorologists are predicting that El Niño could gather momentum in the coming months, intensifying from “moderate” to “strong” and increasing its influence on weather patterns in Myanmar and elsewhere. El Niño is characterised by a warming of the surface waters of the Pacific […]
By Samantha Chigogo Climate researchers from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have revealed that 2015 has broken records as the earth’s hottest year and the global scorching weather conditions are forecast to continue. According to the NOAA Annual Global Analysis for 2015, last year’s sharp spike […]
Yomi Kazeem February 05, 2016 Zimbabwe has declared a state of disaster in parts of the country which have been badly hit by one of the worst droughts it has seen in recent years. According to reports, as many as 2.4 million people—almost a quarter of Zimbabwe’s population—are […]
Maddie Stone 2/01/16 Imagine if crop yields across the United States dropped more than 50 percent in a single year. It’s difficult to fathom just how catastrophic this would be—but that’s exactly what’s happening in Ethiopia right now, thanks to a deadly, El Niño-fueled drought. The effects of […]
by Eko Listiyorini January 6, 2016 As the effects of the most severe El Niño in almost 20 years still reverberate globally, parts of the world are already preparing for La Niña. Indonesia is set to distribute water pumps to farmers and is assessing its rice stockpiles in anticipation […]
Source(s): Oxfam International Secretariat Millions of people in the Pacific are affected by the consequences of a powerful El Niño – the climate phenomenon that develops in the tropical Pacific and brings extreme weather to several regions of the world. Papua New Guinea is currently the worst hit […]
January 1 2016 – 17:47 In many villages in Southern Zimbabwe, farmers have lost cattle and crops in the severest drought that has hit the country since 1998. Midway through the farming season, the fields around the village are normally green at this time of the year but […]
