The Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2012
UNDP: The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions out of poverty,…
(IPS) Bangladesh: With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant…
AlertNet: Heavy monsoon rains in the Satkhira and Khulna districts in southwest Bangladesh have forced 700,000 people to flee their…
UNDP: Himalayan Meltdown, now airing on Discovery Channel Asia, examines how communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal seek…
Governments in Asia and the Pacific must prepare for the possibility of millions of people fleeing their homes as a…
Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture last…
In July 2010, massive rain in Pakistan led to unprecedented flooding that submerged one-fifth of the country and affected more…
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose…
A new global ranking, calculating the vulnerability of 170 countries to the impacts of climate change over the next 30…
The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
Credit: NASA
Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly and threatening residents in some densely populated coastal areas and islands, a…
Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water contamination and illnesses plague the 1.3 billion people who live in the watersheds directly supplied…
Walter W. Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens
More than 1.4 billion people depend on water from…
Crops that provide a lifeline to farmers and their families in developing countries are coming under pressure from increasingly unpredictable…
A growing body of scientific evidence strongly suggests that climate change has enormous and diverse effects on human health. Rises…
As governments, businesses, and homeowners plan for the future, they should assume that the world’s oceans will rise by at…
12 January 2010
The devastating impact of climate change on people living at the mouth of the river Ganges is being…
The plight of people whose lives have already been devastated by climate change has received surprisingly little attention. Fortunately, photojournalist…
Climate change was a brutal reality for hundreds of millions of people in 2009: the Indian monsoon failed, drought afflicted…
Alliance of Small Island States say any deal that allows temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C is ‘not negotiable’
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At the United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, the International Geosphere-Biosphere programme launches the IGBP Climate-Change Index.
The index brings together…
The climate and development organization Germanwatch published its Global Climate Risk Index 2010 in Copenhagen today, ranking Bangladesh, Myanmar and…
We must act today to stop treating the atmosphere like an ashtray. Global warming is already claiming 300,000 lives each…
WWF and Allianz climate report
If tipping points that are mainly triggered by rising global temperatures were unleashed, the world’s diverse…
“No Place Like Home” highlights the humanitarian plight of an estimated 150 million people whose homes will be lost as…
A new map illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep temperature change to under 2 °C was launched today…
Jamie Hewlett’s paintings of Bangladeshi villagers capture the beauty and fragility of their flood-threatened existence. He speaks of his terrifying…
Low rainfall early in the monsoon period ravaged India’s rice, cane sugar and groundnut crops, and has disrupted the flow…
IRIN Films, in association with the UN Environment Programme, is pleased to announce the launch of three more short films…
Nature Geoscience
Published online: 20 September 2009 | doi:10.1038/ngeo629
James P. M. Syvitski, Albert J. Kettner, Irina Overeem, Eric W. H. Hutton,…
Up to 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh are at risk from rising sea levels in the coming decades, according…
Bangladesh has planned a raft of projects costing 4.35 billion dollars to fight the effects of climate change on its…
Nature Geoscience 2, 471 – 478 (2009)
Published online: 14 June 2009 | doi:10.1038/ngeo544
Subject Categories: Climate science | Oceanography
Identifying the…
The report, “Climate change 2009, faster change and more serious risks,” issued by Australian Department of Climate Change examines the…
‘Suffering the Science’ combines the latest scientific observations on climate change, with evidence from the communities Oxfam works with in…
The PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform is a multiple agencies effort to share spatial data information on global risk from…
Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope…
Lige nu må mennesker i Bengalen, Bangladesh og nordøstlige Indien flytte, fordi havet stiger og opsluger deres hjem. De klimaforandringer,…
