The central Sahel is facing a food security crisis due to the high vulnerability of the population to erratic rainfall.
Food crisis in Central Sahel in 2022 driven by chronic vulnerability with uncertain role of climate change
Sam Fraser-Baxter
Twelve months – WWA without Geert Jan
On 12 of October 2021 – a year ago today – our co-founder, friend and colleague Geert Jan van Oldenborgh passed away.
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
Climate change likely increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan
From mid-June until the end of August 2022, large parts of Pakistan experienced record-breaking monsoonal rainfall, leading to large parts of the country being flooded.
Without human-caused climate change temperatures of 40°C in the UK would have been extremely unlikely
On Monday and Tuesday, 18 & 19 July 2022, an exceptional heatwave affected large parts of the UK. It was the first time that temperatures of 40°C and above have been forecast in the UK.