Assam Tribune: The possible reason for the recent floods in Assam is the changes taking place in climate, observes Prof Nayan Sarma of the IIT, Roorkee, who is involved in an Indo-German project BRAHMATWINN, with its focus on the impact of climate change on the Brahmaputra. He also warned, while talking to this correspondent, against

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ADB: District-level Training Toolkit on Climate Change and Environmental Management, Part A: Facilitator’s Guide. Ministry of Environment for the last ten years has been playing leading a role to address the issues on environment management. MoEnv is working as regulatory institution in the field of pollution control, EIA, IEE and various other issues. MoEnv is

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Scientific American: In the case of the 2011 heat wave in Texas, new research finds that adding climate change to La Niña makes scorching heat 20 times more likely. Climate change is changing the odds of some extreme weather events, according to new research by government scientists in the United States and Britain. Back-to-back La

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CDKN: Do you feel vulnerable to climate change?  What is it that makes you vulnerable? If you ask that question to 100 people, you will get 100 different answers. In fact, we did (see below video), and from six people that we talked to we got six different answers. Yet we have countless vulnerability assessments across

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Scidevnet: Fruitful dialogue in Africa shows the gap between climate scientists and decision makers can be bridged, says adaptation specialist Arame Tall. African countries face a growing threat of hydro-meteorological disasters such as droughts, floods, pest infestations, water-related epidemics, storms and cyclones. Whether correlated with anthropogenic climate change, a result of increased human vulnerability or

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ABC News: A new report is warning hundreds of inland Australian towns could cease to exist by 2050 if locals do not adapt to climate change. The report studied 1,600 bush towns and found the ones with low education rates are least likely to make the decisions needed to adapt to a hotter future. But

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