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Food crisis in Central Sahel in 2022 driven by chronic vulnerability with uncertain role of climate change

The central Sahel is facing a food security crisis due to the high vulnerability of the population to erratic rainfall.

16 November, 2022 | Drought | Africa

High temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely

Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the summer of 2022

05 October, 2022 | Drought | Europe, North America, Northern Asia

Factors other than climate change are the main drivers of recent food insecurity in Southern Madagascar

Southern Madagascar (the Grand Sud) is facing a deteriorating food security crisis, exacerbated by exceptionally low levels of rainfall over the last two years. In an area with 90% of the population living below the poverty line, this recent drought has contributed to tens of thousands facing severe famine-like conditions.

01 December, 2021 | Drought | Africa

Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

Our latest analysis explores the role of human-induced climate change in the southeastern Australian bushfires in 2019–2020.

10 January, 2020 | Drought, Heatwave | Australasia

Likelihood of Cape Town water crisis tripled by climate change

Photo by Genaro Servín from Pexels

The scientists with the WWA studied the effect of climate change on the lack of rainfall leading to the Cape Town Drought and found that it made the event about three times more likely.

13 July, 2018 | Drought | Africa

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