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Munich Re warns climate change could cost billions
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 6 hours ago
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The company's statistics show that "globally, the average number of major weather-related catastrophes such as wind storms, floods or droughts is now three times as high as at the beginning of the 1980's." "Losses have risen even more, with average increases...
Tags: Munich Re AG, Denmark, Copenhagen, Environment, Climate change, Global warming, Insurance, Carbon finance, Actuarial science, Economics of global warming, Reinsurance, Drought, Disaster Accident, Types of insurance
Climate change already a reality in Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | about 9 hours ago
Credibility From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least. About 23-million people currently face starvation across...
Tags: climate change, South Africa, Southern Africa, African Union, Kenya, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Environment, Carbon finance, 19th century, Global warming, 21st century, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Drought
Urban Artists Creating Record of Rural Decline
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility Turtle, Lake Bonney. (Dean Sewell) “I was shocked—the amount of dead trees. I realized the whole wetlands had been over-processed with re-directed water, droughts, and floods,” said Fran Ifould, a post graduate student from the Australian National University’s...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Environment, Murray River, Emissions trading, Australian National University, Drought, Murray-Darling Basin, Darling River, Individual and political action on climate change, Rivers of New South Wales, Murrumbidgee River, Garnaut Climate Change Review, Water security, Climate change in Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Texas ranchers welcome rain after historic drought
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Autumn rains have soaked scorched parts of Texas, heralding the end of the worst drought on record in at least nine counties and bringing relief to the state's withered cattle industry. The rains have come too late for some growers of cotton and other...
Tags: Texas A&M University, Texas AgriLife Extension, El Nino, U.S, Fort Worth, Drought, Hydrology, Thirst, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas, Droughts, Texas A&M University System, Climatology, Disaster Accident, Environment
Time of day matters to thirsty trees dealing with drought
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility A new research indicates that the time of the day mattes to forest trees dealing with drought. The research was carried out by Professor Malcolm Campbell, University of Toronto Scarborough's vice-principal for research and PhD student Olivia Wilkins,...
Tags: gene programs, different programs, Malcolm Campbell, Olivia Wilkins, responsive gene, drought responsive, India, Mumbai, Bioengineering, Drought, Thirst, Bioinformatics, Technology Internet, Droughts, Climatology, Hydrology, Health Medical Pharma, Environment
SYRIA: Drought response faces funding shortfall
Damascus :: Syria | 2 days ago
Credibility With a few weeks left before the end of this year’s planting season, UN officials have raised concerns over the lack of funds to help drought-hit farmers and herders in northeastern Syria. “The situation is worrying. We have six weeks left before we miss...
Tags: Syrian, Abdulla Bin Yehia, WFP, drought response, IRIN, animal feed, told irin, Mohamad Alloush, Syria, Damascus, Food politics, Drought, Malnutrition, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme, Environment, Disaster Accident
Beyond Reasonable Drought
Victoria :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility Feil’s photo was taken on a farm near Tallarook in central Victoria in November 2007 at sunset. The book, published by Five Mile Press, features more than 200 photos by MAP Group photographers, a foreword by Don Watson and essays by Martin Flanagan, David...
Tags: Beyond Reasonable Drought, Canada, Victoria, Tallarook Victoria, Drought, Entertainment Culture, Environment
Drought to worsen before Januray relief
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 2 days ago
Credibility Indications are that the El Nino effect could enter January 2010 but Fiji Meteorological Services director Rajendra Prasad said it was difficult to predict anything beyond that. He said the El Nino phenomenon appeared a few months ago in a weak form but...
Tags: Fiji Meteorological Services, nino phenomenon, Fiji Islands, Suva, Physical oceanography, Tropical meteorology, Drought, Fiji, Rain, Environment, Droughts, Climate change, El Niￃﾱo-Southern Oscillation, Disaster Accident
Dad in court on rape charge
Mthatha :: South Africa | 3 days ago
Credibility A 52-year-old man will appear in the Thabamoopo Magistrate's Court for allegedly raping his own daughter, Limpopo police said on Monday. "It is alleged that the man from Mamaolo village outside Lebowakgomo raped his own daughter, aged 11, during the years...
Tags: allegedly rape, South Africa, Mthatha, Western Cape, Knysna, Drought, Desalination, Environment, Pietersburg, Lebowakgomo, Lebowa, Rape, Law Crime, Johannesburg, High Court of South Africa, Censorship, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Robert McBride, Mthatha Eastern Cape, Transkei
Farmers vow to battle drought
Brisbane :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Latest figures released today show that drought in NSW is worsening, with 73.6 per cent of the state now affected, compared with the October figure of 67.7 per cent. A further 24.5 per cent of the state is marginal, meaning just 1.9 per cent of NSW is...
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Business Finance, Environment, Abraham Lincoln, Cent, Disaster Accident, Drought, Climate of Australia, Drought in Australia, Environment of Australia
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