Infographic from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Published on 22 Jan 2019 OVERVIEW Approximately 10.8 million people were facing severe food insecurity in Southern Africa as 2018 came to an end. In Eswatini, the estimated number of people facing Crisis (IPC phase 3) or worse food insecurity more […]
Global Situation Assessment of El Niño-related Health Risks WMO has confirmed reports that a mature and strong El Niño is present in the tropical Pacific Ocean. International climate models suggest that the 2015/2016 El Niño will strengthen further before the end of 2015 and become one of the strongest […]
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 the FAQs on El Niñoand La Niña. Global Impacts Global effects of El Niño La Niña and Resources from the IRI Wwind, […]
Cette nouvelle série de tempêtes de sable qui ont frappé plusieurs parties du pays succède aux tempêtes survenues au début du mois et ayant causé au moins 140 morts. LE MONDE | 14.05.2018 Au moins 86 personnes ont péri, dimanche 13 mai, dans une nouvelle série de tempêtes de sable et d’orages en […]
By Phil Mercer BBC, Sydney January 31, 2017 As a homesick teenager in Britain in the early 1900s, the writer Dorothea Mackellar yearned for the “pitiless blue sky” of Australia. “I love a sunburnt country,” she declared in her timeless poem My Country, and more than a century […]
Lisa Schlein October 22, 2015 10:32 AM GENEVA— The World Health Organization is stepping up efforts to control multiple cholera outbreaks in Africa and the Middle East to prevent the disease from spreading and threatening the health of thousands of people. More than 10,700 cholera cases and 170 […]
Monte Morin LA Times A fog of suffocating smoke settles over the Indonesian countryside, sickening hundreds of thousands of people and triggering an environmental crisis. In Peru, officials abandon plans to host the lucrative Dakar Rally and prepare instead for torrential rains and devastating floods. And in […]
