Theme: Integrative Highland to Ocean (H2O) Action for Disappearing Deltas: Towards a UN Convention on Conserving River Deltas Venue: United Nations (UN) Headquarter, Side Event Room A Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023 […]
El Niño impacts the precipitation recycle ratio over the Tibetan Plateau at interannual timescale
INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Feb 24, 2021 The water cycle over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), as known as “Asian Water Tower”, is vital to the regional and downstream […]
How El Niño is threatening livelihoods
El Niño-driven drought has already left more than 34 million people hungry in Eastern and Southern Africa, and this is set to double in 2016. ActionAid is helping people in the countries most […]
ECWC commissions Gidabo Irrigation Dam
Jean Marie Takouleu February 22 2019 Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWC) has completed the Gidabo dam in central Ethiopia. Its putting into service was the subject of a ceremony attended by the […]
El Nino is bringing drought threats for business in southern Africa
Reuters Foundation Kate E. Gannon, Patrick Curran & Declan Conway December 2018 Coinciding with one of the strongest El Niño events since at least 1950, widespread droughts occurred throughout southern Africa during […]
East Africa Food Security Alert: December 7, 2018
December 7, 2018 Significant October to December rainfall deficits to result in below-average crop and livestock production Across the Horn of Africa, rainfall performance during the October to December Deyr/short rains season […]
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 […]