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News : Climate

Architect Halima Tayo Alao, the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development is a committed community leader who has served Nigeria in several professional and administrative positions before attaining her present status. (AllAfrica)

Some 100 delegates from 36 countries meeting at FAO today called on farmers to join the ongoing "Greener" revolution represented by a form of farming known as Conservation Agriculture. (AllAfrica)

Climate Change is accepted today even by die hard sceptics as a real crisis that must be urgently tackled for the preservation of the earth in a form that would sustain human and other life forms. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the best known body of climate scientists who accepts that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations due to human activities [1]. (AllAfrica)

Residents of Dutse Alhaji and Dutse Makaranta in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are now counting their losses following the havoc done by floods in the two communities. (AllAfrica)

The newly appointed chief executive officer of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Engr Bello Suleman has attributed the nation's poor hydro generation to the global climatic change. (AllAfrica)

Climate change has a profound effect on food security in Africa, as increasing temperatures and shifting rain patterns reduce access to food across the continent. (AllAfrica)

In an effort to mitigate the negative impact of climate change, new funding by European Commission's Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) will help bolster disaster risk reduction and community resilience in Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros. (AllAfrica)

The Urbanisation and Environment Ministry (Minua) organises as from this Thursday in Luanda, the first national seminar on "Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Changes". (AllAfrica)

Two persons were yesterday morning feared dead at Dutse-Baupma of Bwari Area Council when an early morning downpour caused a river to overshoot its bank and send water into the community. (AllAfrica)

Recurrent outbreaks of the viral livestock disease peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which affects goats and sheep, are exacerbating poor food security in the mainly pastoralist Turkana region of northwestern Kenya. (AllAfrica)

FARMERS need to learn new practices to adapt to new climatic changes. A report released by Oxfam, a non-governmental organisation, shows that adaptation can help the communities live with the climatic change that has taken its toll on farming and pastoral communities. (AllAfrica)

They flock our country year in and year out appreciating the gifts that God gave our land. Flocking our nation to climb our mountains that they call virgin because they have survived the heavy pollution and litter that is a characteristic of the foreign peaks such as the Everest. (AllAfrica)

Intense and heavy rainfall in the Liberian capital Monrovia on 20 July caused the worst floods on record in Monrovia and forced nearly 1,000 people out of their houses, Liberian authorities told IRIN. (AllAfrica)

The Western Cape region attracts millions of tourists who come to this part of South Africa to enjoy its famous Table Mountain and beaches, and to experience some of the world's best wines and deciduous fruits. (AllAfrica)

The longer the delay in taking action on climate change, the greater the costs would be for everyone to minimise its effects and adapt to them, Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said last night. (AllAfrica)

A rainstorm has ravaged 18 classrooms at the Government Science and Technical College, Mubi, in Adamawa State. (AllAfrica)

Sokoto State Commissioner for Forestry and Animal Health, Alhaji Kabiru Tafida, has blamed desertification in the state on the indiscriminate felling of trees by the people. (AllAfrica)

Up to two-thirds of the animal species in the Kruger National Park could become extinct if global temperatures increase at the current rate. (AllAfrica)

Vredenburg residents, still recovering from the harsh winds that left many of their homes damaged last week, are now bracing for gale-force winds forecast for the area for the next three days. (AllAfrica)

A new database on the world's soils improves knowledge of the current and future land productivity as well as the present carbon storage and carbon sequestration potential of the world's soils. It helps to identify land and water limitations, and assist in assessing the risks of land degradation, particularly soil erosion risks, said FAO today. (AllAfrica)

The Kroo Bay area of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown is one of the poorest and most marginalised in the country. During the country's six-month rainy season, flood waters wash refuse and filth into people's houses, meaning waterborne diseases are extremely frequent. (AllAfrica)

Angolan Government has approved the national strategy on the implementation of the UN convention framework on climatic changes and the Kyoto Protocol that seeks, among other purposes, to foment international cooperation in the domain of the said alterations and transfer of knowledge and experience. (AllAfrica)

Fourteen states have been selected as the first developing country members of an innovative partnership and international financing mechanism to combat tropical deforestation and climate change. (AllAfrica)

How can the impact of climate change be mitigated? This is the question stakeholders converged on Sokoto to consider at an Information and Policy Advocacy Session convened by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Nigeria in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment. (AllAfrica)

Resolution of Cabinet Council that approves the national strategy on UN climate changes and kyoto convention (AllAfrica)

The flooding which ravaged almost all parts of Borno state last year, killing over 10 persons, was a natural disaster that occurred in virtually every state in the country. Whereas expectations were high that state governments would have adopted measures to prevent flooding this year, that appears not to be the case in Borno state as, already, some parts of Maiduguri, the capital, are being confronted with yet another threat of impending flood disaster. (AllAfrica)

WE ARE REMINDED, INcreasingly these days, of nature's potentially destructive power. Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, or the earthquake in Sichuan province of China, left hundreds of thousands of people dead and millions homeless. (AllAfrica)

BOTHERED by the level of devastation erosion and flood menace have created in major cities and localities across the country, the Federal Government has called on states and local government administrations to partner with it in order to find lasting solutions to the threat the monster poses to the nation's ecology. (AllAfrica)

The resolution number 52/08 of the Council of Ministers that approves the National Strategy for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention on Climate Changes and Kyoto Protocol, came into force on last June 05. (AllAfrica)

In Madagascar, where community resilience and livelihoods are continuously eroded by cyclones, floods and drought, the gap between emergency humanitarian action and development assistance can become too wide to cross. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the European Commission's humanitarian wing are working together in Madagascar to provide medicines and other vital health services to a series of villages, five months after they were devastated by Cyclone Ivan in February. (AllAfrica)