je.st
news
Tag: droughts
Researchers see link between deadly spread of diarrhea, more prolonged droughts in Africa
2013-04-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The mention of diarrhea is likely to elicit a vague squeamishness in the First World, where indoor toilets and clean water for washing are commonplace, but for thousands of children living in drought-plagued sub-Saharan Africa, the subject is one of life and death. Although the illness is both easily preventable and treatable, World Health Organization data show that close to 920,000 people in the U.N. agency's Africa region died of diarrheal diseases in 2008. Nearly three-quarters of these deaths...
Tags: link
africa
spread
researchers
Canada defends leaving UN convention on droughts
2013-03-28 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Canada defended its decision to pull out of a United Nations convention that fights the spread of droughts just a month before a major gathering would have forced the country to confront scientific analysis on the effects of climate change. Canada is the only country in the world outside the agreement. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has been vilified an as outlier on climate change policy in past international meetings. Harper said Thursday that the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification...
Tags: canada
leaving
convention
defends
Prof Sir John Beddington warns of floods, droughts and storms
2013-03-25 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The government's chief scientist has said that there is already enough CO2 in the atmosphere for there to be more floods and droughts over the next 25 years. Prof Sir John Beddington said there was a "need for urgency" in tackling climate change. He said that the later governments left it, the harder it would be to combat. Prof Beddington made his comments in the final week of his tenure as the government's chief scientific adviser. "The [current] variation we are seeing in temperature...
Monsoon failure key to long droughts in Southwest
2013-03-11 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Long-term droughts in the Southwestern North America often mean failure of both summer and winter rains, according to new tree-ring research from a University of Arizona-led team. The finding contradicts the commonly held belief that a dry winter rainy season is generally followed by a wet monsoon season, and vice versa. The new research shows that for the severe, multi-decadal droughts that occurred from 1539 to 2008, generally both winter and summer rains were sparse year after year. "One...
Tags: long
key
failure
southwest
Droughts raise water supply concerns in China
2013-03-07 14:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: In Wang Lianying's backyard are four basins filled with water that she uses for laundry, one each for soaking, soaping, scrubbing and rinsing. "The water's good for four or five cycles, at least half a month," the 69-year-old housewife said. "Our ox has to drink the water we use for washing our feet. "But we won't even be able to afford to use any water this way if the rain doesn't come in the next few days," she said. For many villagers like Wang in Songming county, Yunnan province, conserving...
Tags: china
water
supply
concerns
Sites : [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] next »