by Abriel | Aug 16, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
Sri Lanka can meet its current and future electricity demand by judicial use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB). The report, titled Assessment of Sri Lanka’s Power...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
India’s monsoon has delivered 1 percent more rain than normal so far this year, but erratic distribution has flooded some areas and left others in drought, clouding the outlook for key summer-sown crops more than midway through the season. The uneven rains could...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
South Asia, home to one-fifth of the world’s population, could see humid heat rise to unsurvivable levels by century’s end if nothing is done to halt global warming, warned the researchers of the study in the journal Science Advances. The research is based...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
In a daily update by the disaster department, twenty-three people have died since July 5 due to the heavy rains which brought about some of the worst floods in years to Thailand’s rural northeast. Junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha flew to the hardest-hit province of...
by Abriel | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
China’s national weather observatory issued a yellow alert for rainstorms on Wednesday as heavy rain is expected in most of north China and some areas in the south over the next 24 hours. China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red the...
by Abriel | Jun 21, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
American Airlines has been forced to cancel more than 40 flights in Phoenix due to high daytime temperature (~49°C). Hotter air results in thinner air, which makes it more difficult for planes, especially the smaller jets, to generate enough lift for take-off. As the...
