Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.
- Director of the Climate Hazards Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
Au cours des six dernières années, cinq saisons des pluies ont été mauvaises ou très mauvaises à Madagascar.
The next year appears likely to bring another sequence of La Niña-related droughts to eastern East Africa. The time to act is now or many will suffer.
Out of the last six years in Madagascar, five years have had poor or very bad rainy seasons.
Satellite rainfall data can be used to predict harsh climate events – and to identify food-insecure populations before disaster strikes.
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