Greg Benchwick
CISONECC in A Campaign to Reduce Effects of Climate Change in Malawi
The Maravi Post
Ministry of Natural Resources Energy and Mining Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services alongside Department of Disaster Management Affairs have taken a new approach in Managing Climate change effects originating from El Nino ...
70 Automatic weather stations to be installed
New Vision
According to Prof. John Selker, the Co-Director of the Trans-Africa Hydro Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO
Africa needs digital revolution to handle climate change - World Bank
Climate Home
Africa urgently needs 4-5000 weather stations so countries can track and understand changes to the world's climate, according to the World Bank. Thin data flow and poor internet penetration leave many communities flying blind in the face of extreme ...
Africa Called to Implement Climate Change Agreement
AllAfrica.com
Pretoria — The Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has called on all African states to move swiftly, so that the agreement on climate change can come into effect to unlock the wealth of nations and save the planet.
Zambia: 2016 Gender, Climate Change Impacts
AllAfrica.com
In attendance were different stakeholders and experts from all the ten provinces of Zambia to formulate the gender and climate change action plan and also share their experience on climate change in Zambia. Gender is the collective social differences ...
Zambia: WFP's Chief Calls for Support for Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
AllAfrica.com
Pemba — With El Nino affecting countries in southern Africa, threatening agricultural production due to a massive heat wave, the World Food Programme has urged the international community to support the upscaling of climate smart agricultural ...
Gambia: Extension Workers Brainstorm On Mainstreaming Climate Change Into ...
AllAfrica.com
About 40 extension workers from Upper River and Central River regions at the weekend concluded a three-day convergence on mainstreaming climate change into development planning. The forum was organised by the Department of Water Resources as ...
Ethiopia: 'Fish Rain' in Dire Dawa
AllAfrica.com
Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute Livestock Director Dr. Getenet Assefa on his part said that this phenomena occurs due to cyclone. In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth.
Little respite seen from hot, dry South African summer - weather service
Thomson Reuters Foundation
... Jan 29 (Reuters) - An El Nino weather pattern which has triggered historic drought in South Africa remains on track to keep conditions hot and dry ...
Africa: Livestock Biodiversity Must Be Preserved As Vital Tool Against Climate Change - UN Agency
AllAfrica.com
Africa: Livestock Biodiversity Must Be Preserved As Vital Tool Against Climate ... Beyond climate change, future challenges include emerging diseases, ... invested heavily in building shared information systems and gene banks as ...
WMO
Success in West Africa for farmers
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is evaluating the success of a four-year project to improve the provision and use of meteorological information and tools for farmers in West Africa where agriculture and food security is heavily dependent on the weather.
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/agm/roving_seminars/west_africa_en.php#meetings
WIGOS Newsletter
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/wigos/documents/WIGOS_Newsletter_Vol2_N1_Jan2016.pdf
World Meteorological Organization: 2015 is hottest year on record
YubaNet
GENEVA, Jan. 25, 2016 - The global average surface temperature in 2015 broke all previous records by a strikingly wide margin, at 0.76±0.1° Celsius above the 1961-1990 average. For the first time on record, temperatures in 2015 were about 1°C above the ...
Meteorology
Without the Montreal Protocol, more intense tropical cyclones
Phys.Org
If the Montreal Protocol had been rejected and the risks of ozone depleting substances had been ignored by the world, we would be facing even more intense tropical cyclones in the near future, according to a new study in the American Meteorological ...
The mystery of the expanding tropics
Nature.com
Nevertheless, researchers investigating this phenomenon agree that it is real. “There's a big need to be concerned about this issue,” says climate scientist Chris Lucas at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne. That's because of the ...
Watch: All of last year's wild weather in one satellite video
Siliconrepublic.com
Combining data from satellites owned by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the Japan Meteorological Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the video talks us through most of ...
Forecasting Heavy Rains and Landslides in Eastern Africa
Satellite-Derived Climatology Products for Monitoring Convection Over West and Central Africa