Ethiopia commended for efforts to mitigate drought effects

An official from the UN’s humanitarian arm complimented the work done by Ethiopia to deal with drought after a trip to the African country, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here Monday

Solar storms present growing threat to high-tech civilisation

The upper atmosphere suddenly lit up like a Christmas tree under infra-red radiation at the beginning of March. A violent solar storm was to blame, spewing out a huge cloud of charged solar particles that swept past the earth at high speed.

Climate Change Affects Europe’s Mountain Plants -Study

The acceleration of climate change is stressing mountain plants in Europe and driving them to migrate to higher altitudes, according to a study released Thursday by US researchers.

Climate change causing extreme weather conditions

Evidence suggests that climate change has led to extreme weather conditions such as heat waves, record high temperatures and, in many regions, heavy precipitation in the past half century, according to a report released Wednesday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Melting glacier poses threat to Nepali villagers

“Natural calamities are unstoppable and we never know when and how it comes but there is need to be prepared for it,” said Pradeep Mool, a glaciologist with Kathmandu-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in a recent interview with Xinhua.

PH unveils eBus to address climate change

The Philippine government launched on Friday a battery-powered commuter bus, which produces no greenhouse gas (GHG).

Strong rains kill 10 in Bolivia

Ten people have been killed in Bolivia by landslides and bank collapse caused by torrential rains, Bolivian Civil Defense authorities said on Friday.

Snow, ice plague western Balkans

Snow and ice continued to obstruct travel in the western Balkans, as roads on the interior of Montenegro were largely closed on Monday while hundreds of villages in central Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) remain cut off under a heavy blanket of snow, according to local media reports.

Massive fish deaths in south Philippines blamed on climate change

Around 49 metric tons of fish have been found floating dead in Sebu Lake in South Cotabato province, south Philippines, and local officials blamed the deaths on climate change, a provincial fishery coordinator told a local radio station Tuesday.

Rain, snow to hit south China over next 3 days

China’s southern regions should be braced for rain and snow over the next three days, the country’s meteorological authority said Monday.

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