Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Though its northern and central regions are lush with tropical weather and rainforests, the south is historically dry, comprising vast desert stretches. Over the past year, this parched landscape has grown even more barren, as the country’s worst drought in over four decades has ravaged food supplies, sweeping hunger throughout the region. .

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, at a newly established site where people displaced by the recent drought are staying, many women and children are in desperate need of food, water, and health services. Adding to the strain, local and regional conflicts in Ethiopia and Somalia have delayed the delivery of aid.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

One hundred thousand people are displaced after ethnic clashes broke out in northern Cameroon earlier this month—the latest escalation of water-fuelled tensions in the region. The most recent wave of violence originated in the village of Ouloumsa in Cameroon’s Far North region. At least 15,000 more are displaced inside Cameroon.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

And most – especially those from Africa and the rest of the Americas – sought very different outcomes that the US. Senegal, Kenya, Cameroon, Djibouti and South Africa all intervened, as did Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Barbados, Argentina and Ecuador. With negotiating time running out, the talks were over. A missed opportunity?

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The humanitarian group said that half of families in drought-affected regions require food aid and one in five cannot feed everyone in their family. In southwest Africa, an ongoing investigation by National Geographic found that a Canadian oil and gas exploration company has consistently violated environmental laws.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the United States, a ruling by a federal judge in Wisconsin has long-term implications for fossil fuel infrastructure in the Great Lakes region. In Africa’s Sahel region, several countries are reeling from a devastating flood season. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann. In Nigeria, floods took more than 300 lives this year.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In India, heavy rains swept across the Himalaya region, causing deadly landslides and floods. Such calamities occur frequently in the region, where steep slopes, land development, and an unstable climate are increasing the environmental risk. The devastation extended into Nepal, where the storms killed dozens more.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A new app aims to reduce the number of failed water systems in Africa. An atmospheric river in central and northern California inundated the region with record-setting rain, triggering flooding and landslides. The rain was an intense change of pace for the drought-stricken region. Clean, running water isn’t a luxury.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 23, 2022

Africa is not on track to meet global goals for water access, sanitation, and hygiene. What’s Up With Water – March 22, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers a major settlement for Canada’s Indigenous communities and persisting drought in the Horn of Africa. Africa Not on Track to Meet Global WASH Goals.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 20, 2022

by Faith Chan, University of Nottingham and Olalekan Adekola, York St John University Many of the world’s poorest people live in regions most susceptible to flooding. In Africa, the continent’s largest city, Lagos in Nigeria, … Continue reading As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

South Africa has just nine entries – a modest number, easily overlooked in the flood of cases out of the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. Global significance South Africa has been described as a “microcosm” of the challenges facing the global response to climate change. Why are these South African cases worth studying?

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New Scientist

MAY 21, 2021

Hunters living in what is now South Africa trapped springboks in U-shaped rock walls called desert kites, which were previously thought to be unique to the Middle East region

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Physics World

JANUARY 27, 2022

The MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa has taken an image that shows the centre of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Radio waves can penetrate dust that permeates the region and obscures the view at other wavelengths such as optical. More details about the image can be found here.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 20, 2022

Floods decimate coastal South Africa. Floods in South Africa have killed more than 400 people and displaced nearly 40,000 people. South Africa’s climate future: The floods have again spurred conversations around climate adaptation in South Africa, Reuters reports. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. 67 MILLION.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission suspended water permits for a dozen energy companies as drought conditions continue to deplete water levels in regional rivers, streams, and lakes. In South Africa, a flood caused a mine dam wall to collapse, killing one person and injuring dozens more. Read the story. . Read the story. .

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What’s Up With Water—December 20, 2021 – This week’s episode covers ongoing drought in Iraq, an investigation into an oil and gas exploration company in southwest Africa, and the annual meeting of Colorado River Basin leaders. “Third Pole” Glaciers Melting At An Alarming Rate, Study Finds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unfortunately, the Pacific is still treated as a strategic asset by powerful nations today, and the multilateral steps taken by the region to protect itself from nuclear weapons continue to be undermined. The Second Meeting of States Parties. Forgetting the taboo?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As internal conflict, economic downturn, and prolonged drought continue to plague the country’s southern and north-eastern regions, aid organizations say hunger will only worsen. Madagascar was the first country in the region to be hit by the storm. As drought plagues Ethiopia, the country’s children are suffering from malnutrition.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Increasing temperatures are resulting in global and regional precipitation changes, leading to shifts in rainfall patterns and agricultural seasons, with a major impact on food security and human health and well-being,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said at a press conference.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. There are a handful of high-impact “tipping points” that could drastically change global or regional water cycles.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Dam levels in Eastern Cape, South Africa , fall below 50 percent. What’s Up With Water—November 22, 2021 – This week’s episode covers flooding in western Canada, drought and hunger in the Horn of Africa, water agreements in the Middle East, and drinking water rules in Pennsylvania. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. BELOW 50 PERCENT . ON THE RADAR.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

More than 37,000 non-native species have been introduced to ecosystems and regions around the world and more than a third these introductions have occurred since 1970. In terms of impacts, 34% are reported in the Americas, 31% in Europe and Central Asia, 25% in the Asia Pacific region, and 7% Africa.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s not a good areal sample of the northern hemisphere, it’s not a good sample of rural stations – many of which exist in the rest of Europe, Australia, Southern Africa, South America etc., An areal weighting of the four regional time series might be justifiable, but that isn’t what’s done. Lean, and D.H.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2023

A solar farm in Western Cape, South Africa. million will finance solar power production across the continent with a focus on West and Central Africa. million will finance solar power production across the continent with a focus on West and Central Africa. Photo credit: Reuters / Esa Alexander. A new investment fund worth €87.5

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Heavy rains flood the capital city of Kurdistan , a semi-autonomous region in Iraq. Heavy rain and snow in the American West this week could relieve the burden of drought in the region. Typhoon Rai batters the Philippines. Emergency services evacuate more than 20,000 people after flooding in Malaysia. 12 PEOPLE . 21,000 PEOPLE.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Nigeria’s central states, a region referred to as the Middle Belt and nicknamed the country’s “food basket,” have been overwhelmed with violence for the better part of a decade. A farm in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Photo © Immanuel Afolabi. Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue. Temperatures here are rising 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Previously, he spent nearly 25 years working as a media producer and consultant on mass communications projects and assignments all over the globe, including a long stint working with and advising traditional healers in West Africa, and also coverage of the Falklands conflict in Argentina on assignment for the BBC.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 16, 2022

Climatologists predict drought will continue in the Horn of Africa. Climatologists and relief agencies fear that drought will persist in the Horn of Africa, leaving as many as 20 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia facing extreme hunger. Water supplies in a small town in Arizona will run out by the end of the year.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The Danish Development Minister Flemming Møller Mortensen announced that the Sahel region in northwestern Africa has been earmarked as the main area where these new climate funds will be used. He did add that some money will also be used in other fragile regions. The Sahel to benefit.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 18, 2021

IEP used data from the United Nations (UN) and other sources in order to predict the countries and regions most at risk. According to Serge Stroobant, IEP Director for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa said the report identified 30 ‘hotspot’ countries home to 1.26 System collapse.

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Fencing in southern Africa is not new. Initially a colonial era implementation to prevent disease transmission from wildlife to cattle, a maze-like network of fences thousands of kilometers long now exists across the region. On your way to the delta, you’ll pass a fence. It’s an unassuming fence of wire and weathered, wooden posts.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

Climate adaptation is severely underfunded in Africa , according to a new report. Local authorities reported that nearly 6,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in the coastal region of Gironde, where the largest fire has been reported. Photo © Alisdare Hickson / Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. 12 PERCENT .

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

Most people in a drought-stricken region do not migrate, either because they do not want to or they cannot afford to. In the Mediterranean, southern Africa, the southwestern United States and Mexico, droughts are already more severe than they were six decades ago. .” Photo: Brent Stirton/Getty Images Reportage for Circle of Blue.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A $25m radio telescope in South Africa that is dedicated to observing the early universe is expected to be complete early next year. South Africa currently has several research groups that are working on HERA’s data and its theoretical interpretation. “As David DeBoer.

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Cleannovate

MAY 25, 2021

The Congo being the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa is mostly covered by a dense forest at its centre. Besides, some tracks linking these cities go through regions plagued by hostility. Being the third longest river in Africa, it rises in the south from highlands of Katanga Province near Lubumbashi.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

HotSpots H2O: As Famine Looms in East Africa, Humanitarian Groups Call for Urgent Action – Drought has left millions in the region facing food insecurity – and conditions are expected to get worse. Reviving Salmon Species In California Restores Way of Life For Hoopa Valley Tribe. ON THE RADAR.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 30, 2022

The technology will be put to the test as solar energy becomes more popular in desert regions that are prone to dust and sand storms. The war in Ukraine is accelerating the climate crisis in the Horn of Africa, where many have grown dependent on the region’s grain exports. In Recent Water News. Soaring water prices.

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