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By combining satellite imagery with data from ground-based weather stations, scientists can more effectively monitor and predict weather patterns.

• 01/16/2024
• Hannah Button

Climatelinks published nearly 20 blogs during COP28, but the insights and resources shared will be useful long after the conference ends.

• 12/14/2023
• Jamie Schoshinski

Did you miss the Climatelinks November newsletter? Here's a recap of the 'Road to COP28' theme.

• 12/12/2023
• Jamie Schoshinski

SERVIR supports specialized forecasts to better predict and mitigate Amazon fire risk that is exacerbated by the El Niño phenomenon.

• 12/10/2023
• Prakrut Kansara, Ben Zaitchik

This blog about Kenya is part of a series of country spotlights Climatelinks is publishing ahead of COP28.

• 11/29/2023
• Ariel Schindler

As the ongoing El Niño is expected to gain strength, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network is using scientific insights to predict how it will affect food security.

• 11/02/2023
• Hannah Button

In a paper published in Earth’s Future in July 2023, scientists with the Famine Early Warning Systems Network explain how they use climate change-driven insights to predict extreme weather events long before they occur, giving organizations like USAID adequate time to respond.

• 08/07/2023
• Hannah Button

Check out some blogs that you might have missed from 2022.

• 12/27/2022
• Ariel Schindler

Droughts and floods, more intense storms, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels are devastating communities around the world, and disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable populations. In response to the severe and urgent global climate crisis, the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) supports developing countries and communities around the world in their efforts to adapt to and manage the impacts of climate change.

• 11/08/2022
• Tedi Rabold

Join this listening session on Monday, November 14th at 6:25–7:10 pm EET (11:25 am–12:10 pm EST). The session will seek input from COP27 attendees and the wider public on the preliminary findings of a study on systemic approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural, nutrition, and food systems.

• 11/07/2022
• Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)

Climate change is projected to have substantial and widespread impacts on food production, food security and the livelihoods of the poor in low-income countries.

• 06/14/2022
• Agrilinks, Avni Mishra, Els Lecoutere, Ranjitha Puskur, Jawoo Koo, Carlo Azzarri

USAID’s Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) directly provides funds to local scientists to help address development challenges

• 04/07/2022
• Koko Zuberi

During 2020 and 2021, a multiyear La Niña event, strengthened by climate change, has helped produce an exceptional three-season drought. As the region enters a long dry season, temperatures of the land’s surface are well-above normal and vegetation is desiccated.

• 02/11/2022
• Kiersten Johnson

Brazil is one of the six countries of the Amazon basin covered by SERVIR-Amazonia, including Colombia, Peru, Guyana, Ecuador, Suriname.

• 04/23/2021
• SERVIR Global

Climate adaptation can take many forms, ranging from disaster risk reduction to natural resources management, according to the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• 04/14/2021
• Steve Hardeman