climate change event Articles
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Spatio-temporal rainfall trends in the twentieth century for Bundelkhand region, India
Globally, climate change and extreme weather events are occurring more frequently, impacting water resources and farming systems. Therefore, spatio-temporal analysis of long-term rainfall is much needed to understand the variability of rainfall occurrence. The present study attempts to analyse spatio-temporal rainfall change scenarios in the 20th century (1901–2000) over Bundelkhand, one of ...
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Drought risk modelling for thermoelectric power plants siting using an excess over threshold approach
Water availability is among the most important elements of thermoelectric power plant site selection and evaluation criteria. With increased variability and changes in hydrologic statistical stationarity, one concern is the increased occurrence of extreme drought events that may be attributable to climatic changes. As hydrological systems are altered, operators of thermoelectric power plants need ...
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Could Ocean Water Vapour Harvesting Ease the Water Crisis?
With freshwater resources around the world coming under increasing pressure from climate change, extreme weather events, urbanisation, water mismanagement and population growth, it’s becoming increasingly important to find ways in which supplies can be shored up… and it seems that there may be some potential for the use of oceanic water vapour in this regard. New research from the ...
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Managing the impacts of climate change using digital twin solutions
Climate change is primarily a water crisis. Extreme weather events are making water more scarce, more unpredictable and more polluted. These impacts throughout the water cycle threaten sustainable development, biodiversity, and access to water and sanitation. Flooding and rising sea levels can contaminate land and water resources with saltwater or raw sewage, and cause damage to water and ...
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Burkina Faso farmers lead the way on food security and climate change resilience
If you want to know how to grow crops in the face of climate change, drought, and land degradation, ask Ousséni Kindo, Ousséni Zoromé, or Yacouba Sawadogo—three farmers in Burkina Faso’s Yatenga region. Policy makers, researchers, and NGO representatives gathered earlier this year at a workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to discuss strategies on combating food ...
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A warming world means more destructive storms
Elevated global temperatures bring a number of threats, including rising seas and more crop-withering heat waves. Higher surface water temperatures in the tropical oceans also provide more energy to drive tropical storm systems, leading to more-destructive hurricanes and typhoons. The combination of rising seas, more powerful storms, and stronger storm surges can be devastating. Just how ...
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Sea Level Rise: Risk and Resilience in Coastal Cities
Introduction One of the most dire impacts of anthropogenic climate change is a rise in the global sea level caused by the melting of glaciers and land-based ice caps, as well as a smaller increase from expansion due to the higher temperature of the water itself. Unlike some other predicted effects of climate change, this impact has already been observed for some time. Indeed, not only is there ...
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Monitoring, testing and managing water quality: 3 vital technologies
Water is one of the most important natural resources on earth, an essential element for all life, so maintaining its quality is crucial for the health of both humans and the environment. Many factors continuously threaten the quality of water, from pollution and climate change to extreme weather events. To ensure the well-being of humans and nature alike, we must use every tool in our repertoire ...
By LG Sonic
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Climate Change and Potential EPA Regulations for Discharging Hazardous Substances in Adverse Conditions
On March 15, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency released a series of proposed regulations around the worst-case discharge of Clean Water Act substances. Under the proposal, industrial facilities that store toxic materials and other pollutants on-site must develop an action plan in the event of a release during adverse conditions. The agency drafted these rules to respond to the growing ...
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The connection between climate change and recent extreme weather events
What do we know about the connection between climate change and recent extreme weather events, such as the heat waves, drought, and fires? Scientists agree that climate change has already primed the pump for extreme weather events: A recent report by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists compared the rising risk of extreme weather events to a baseball ...
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Issues of drinking water quality of small scale water services towards climate change
As climate change could impact water quantity and quality, important concerns are related to water quality degradation in small scale water services (SSWS). SSWS using surface waters resources (rivers and lakes) for drinking water production are particularly vulnerable to short term transient events due to their low adaptation capacity and their lack of support and technical knowledge compared to ...
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Flood control and prevention in cooperation with rural development to reduce the inundation risk on agricultural land
A project by the Chamber of Agriculture, Lower Saxony (Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen), Germany. It is part of the SAWA-Project (Strategic Alliance for Integrated Water Management Actions), co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund INTERREG IVB. Introduction Due to the climate change the risk of extreme flood events is extremely rising. Agricultural land in the floodplains will ...
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Impact of climate change on flood and drought events in Huaihe River Basin, China
The impact of climate change on floods and droughts in Huaihe River Basin is studied using a coupled land-surface hydrology model and continuous wavelet transform technique. Observed temperature in the basin has increased by approximately 0.228 °C per decade since 1951. Observed precipitation and simulated and observed streamflows are used to grade flood and drought events. Two composite grading ...
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Erosive coping after the 2011 floods in Kenya
Periodic river floods have devastating social and economic impacts on poor households in the low-lying coastal and western regions of Kenya. This paper focuses on how households in Bunyala District coped with the impacts of flooding, and particularly the December 2011 River Nzoia flood. The data for the study was collected through a survey of 400 households, three focus group discussions, four ...
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Seasonal rainfall variability in Korea within the context of different evolution patterns of the central Pacific El Niño
This study aims to identify how different evolution patterns of the central Pacific (CP) El Niño influence seasonal rainfall and intense rainfall occurrence in Korea. The results suggest that changes in the CP El Niño can influence the spatiotemporal patterns of seasonal and heavy rainfall over East Asia. Specifically, for the Korean Peninsula, rainfall was typically lower during the years ...
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The Importance of Chalk Stream Restoration
With the water crisis intensifying around the world in line with climate change, more extreme weather events, population growth, ageing infrastructure and water mismanagement, the spotlight has turned once again on England’s chalk streams and the urgent need to protect and preserve these essential water resources for future generations. As habitats, chalk streams are rare and valuable ...
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Don’t Ignore Surface Water Runoff, Report Warns
When it comes to the UK’s water-related aspects of the climate crisis, there’s always a lot of talk about water pollution and shortages in supply, but there’s one topic that risks being left out of the discussion and that’s surface water flooding. This is something that a new report from the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) seeks to address, an issue that is ...
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What is Water Transfer?
To consider the benefits of water transfer as a concept, we must first consider the issue of inequalities in water distribution around the world, something that makes water transfer and interconnection a vital part of modern-day resource management… particularly now, in the face of climate change and ever-increasing extreme weather events. Because over 70 per cent of the earth’s ...
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Life after Rio: `No excuse to do less`
Disappointed over the failure of the Rio summit to produce ambitious commitments on sustainable growth, conservationists say Europe must now redouble efforts to tackle its own environmental challenges. Replete with declarations on sustainability, poverty reduction and expanding electricity to disadvantaged people, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development's final document contained none of ...
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How to Make a Positive Impact on the Environment This Earth Day
This Saturday, April 22, 2017, marks the 47th annual Earth Day. Earth Day was founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson, who was concerned that environmental issues were not being addressed. He created the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, as an educational “teach-in,” with celebrations taking place at universities, primary and secondary schools, and communities across the United ...
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