Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mocha, May 2023, Myanmar: Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Report (June 29, 2023)

Source: reliefweb Given the fragile and conflict-affected situation with limited access in Myanmar, the World Bank has adopted the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology to estimate damages arising from Cyclone Mocha. GRADE is a remote, desktop analysis to estimate damage t...

Google Takes on Flooding with Satellites, Machine Learning

Source: stormwater.wef.orgLeveraging the technology behind its existing suite of satellite imagery products and its expertise in artificial intelligence, search-engine giant Google (Mountain View, California) is pursuing new ways to help people protect life and property in the event of major floods....

Report: The essential drop to reach Net-Zero: Unpacking Freshwater's Role in Climate Change Mitigation

Source: Stockholm UniversityNew research presented at COP27 shows that water is much more important in mitigating climate change than previously believed. Better management of water is critical to tackling today's food and energy crises, both of which are exacerbated by climate change.The repor...

10 Interesting Facts About Water Scarcity

Source: Healing Waters InternationalClean and fresh water isn't a privilege—it's a necessity. Although water covers a large portion of our planet, most of that water isn't fit for human consumption. According to the World Wildlife Federation, only three percent of all earth's water comes from freshw...

UNESCO finds that some iconic World Heritage glaciers will disappear by 2050

Source: The Ocean Decade - New UNESCO data highlight the accelerated melting of glaciers in World Heritage sites, with glaciers in a third of sites set to disappear by 2050. But it is still possible to save the other two thirds, if the rise in global temperatures does not exceed 1.5°C compared ...

Rethinking mountain water security

Source: University of Birmingham - Water security in mountain regions relies on an understanding of the interlinks of water supply and demand that goes far beyond the study of glacier melt. Current information on how the communities which depend on water from mountain snow and ice will be affec...

အဏ္ဏဝါသက်ရှိ အမြောက်အမြား မျိုးသုဥ်းမှုဖြစ်ပေါ်လာနိုင်ကြောင်း သိပ္ပံပညာရှင်များ သတိပေး

ကမ္ဘာကြီးစတင်အသက်ဝင်ခဲ့ချိန်မှစ၍ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ မျိုးသုဉ်းပျောက်ကွယ်ခြင်းဖြစ်စဉ်ပေါင်း အနည်းဆုံး ငါးခု ထိ ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရပြီးဖြစ်သည်။ ယခုမျက်မှောက်ကာလတွင်လည်း နောက်ထပ် မျိုးသုဉ်းပျောက်ကွယ်မှုဖြစ်စဉ်မျိုး သမုဒ္ဒရာထဲတွင် ထပ်မံပေါ်ပေါက်လာတော့မည့် အရိပ်အယောင်ရှိနေပေပြီ။ ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုသာ အရှိန်အဟ...

Why we need to talk about climate when we talk about water

Source - Australian Aid - Climate change is threatening water security as we experience changes in the water cycle, including floods and droughts. At the same time, water systems such as permafrost and wetlands emit greenhouse gases, and climate change mitigation actions such as alternative wat...

FAO technical guide on land tenure, combating desertification, land degradation, and drought

Source - United Nations - A new technical guide from the secretariats of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) addresses the integration of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of T...

Young people drive climate and water action

Source - World Meteorological Organization - More than 1,000 youth leaders from Asia and the Pacific region gathered this week in the Philippines for an international conference co-sponsored by WMO to increase youth participation in addressing global water and climate challenges. The event came...

မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်များကို ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်မြင့်တက်ခြင်းမှ ကာကွယ်ရန် နည်းလမ်း ၄ သွယ်

အလျင်အမြန်မြင့်တက်နေသော ပင်လယ်ရေမျက်နှာပြင်၏ြခိမ်းခြောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုခံနေရသော မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်တို့သည် ရေအောက်နစ်မြုပ်တော့မည့် အခြေအနေနှင့်ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည်။ ပင်လယ်ရေ မျက်နှာပြင် မြင့်တက်လာမှု၏ သက်ရောက်မှုဒဏ်ကိုကာကွယ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက်ဆိုလျှင် မြစ်ဝကျွန်းပေါ်မြေများကို မြစ်တို့မှရရှိသော သဲများ၊ ရွှံ့မြေများနှင့် ...

Marine Warriors Hand-in Workshop

Source: World Learning - The 2022 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Regional Workshop: Marine Warriors brings together participants from ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste to examine recent environmental changes and consequences in the Central Coastal regions of Vietnam. Funded by ...

The perspectives of local marginalized groups upon water in the midst of COVID-19 in Myanmar

COVID-19 pandemic has been changing our day-to-day activities since the beginning. Water becomes an essential element, and access to clean water is crucial to reducing the risk of COVID-19. In addition, the regions where water insecurity pre-exists before the pandemic increased the need for clean wa...

Webinar Announcement - Drought, COVID and multi-risk assessment

Source: UN-Water - Droughts cause deep and multi-faceted damage to ecosystems, (agro) economies and societies, particularly to vulnerable rural people in developing countries. A forthcoming webinar by the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) group will examine the multiple ...

International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

Source: Engineering With Nature -  The application of natural and nature‑based features (NNBF) has grown steadily over the past 20 years, supported by calls for innovation in flood risk management (FRM) and nature‑based solutions from many different perspectives and organizations. Technica...

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