The worst drought in decades gripped north and central Ethiopia in 2015, affecting nearly 10 million people. The resulting food scarcity meant more than eight million people in the parched country needed emergency food aid, according to the United Nations.
A team of international scientists says that it is virtually certain that the heatwave that stretched across much of Europe in early July was more likely to happen now than in the past due to climate change.
2014 looks increasingly likely to be the warmest year ever recorded in Europe, according to a new analysis of European temperature records dating back to the 1500s. What role did global warming play?
Weather@home is a group of regional climate modelling experiments within climateprediction.net, a volunteer computing and climate modeling project based at the University of Oxford in the Environmental Change Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics.
The Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) initiative ran from 2016–2017, working with the Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). Using WWA’s state-of-the-art attribution science, RRA helped African and Asian societies to understand the role of climate change in extreme weather events and prepare for future risk by assessing whether climate change has contributed to extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods and heat waves in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya.