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U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps ...
The landscape of external funding flows to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has evolved significantly over the past two decades. This paper provides an overview of the non-official external financing sources, ...
Despite a brief uptick in rainfall across the continent, critical water shortages persist, particularly in major river basins ...
Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.
Chances for tropical development from a system off the coast of Florida dropped to zero June 4.
Climate change lawsuits have become a new way for countries to assert their rights against actions that degrade the environment. But African countries have yet to fully exploit this route.
North Africa recorded the highest temperature - 1.28°C above the 1991-2020 average; it is the fastest-warming sub-region of Africa. Marine heat spike Sea surface temperatures were also the ...
However, climate change threatens to reverse this progress. Despite contributing only 2-3% of global carbon emissions, Africa disproportionately suffers the burdens of human-caused climate change.
Analysis - The United Nations' 29th annual climate change conference of the parties, COP29, ended with countries from the global north committing US$300 billion per year in climate finance to ...
Figure 1: Long term average rain for Cape Town International Airport Figure 2 shows a spatial rainfall map of South Africa for July 2023 (left) and July 2024 (right). Notably, the south-western parts ...
NYC’s 2080 climate will be analogous to the present climate of Ola, Arkansas, located at a different latitude 620 kilometers (390 miles) south in a straight line.
This allows users to compare future climate conditions in their city to current climates globally, based on the average of five forecasts for each scenario.