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Malaria is a treatable and preventable disease, yet malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, or about 3000 children every day. Nearly 92 percent of these cases occur in Africa.

• 06/12/2019
• Fernanda Zermoglio, Sadie J. Ryan

This year’s World Environment Day theme focuses on a global challenge with pressing implications on human health and the environment: air pollution.

• 06/05/2019
• Isabela Barriga

Water security is integral to the health and sustainability of our communities and ecosystems. Achieving water security, however, is challenging for several reasons including poor governance, resource competition and poorly-conceived economic development.

• 05/20/2019
• Basil Mahayni

In 2017, hurricanes Irma and Maria were forecast to hit the Dominican Republic. ClimaPlan, a USAID project working with the Dominican municipality of Las Terrenas, recognized that these hurricanes would provide an opportunity to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the city’s climate resilience and adaptation capacity.

• 05/16/2019
• Molly Hellmuth, Joanne Potter

“The water is pushing very hard on our islands and communities,” recounted the Bonthe Deputy Mayor, during a recent meeting with USAID staff in the southwestern district of Sierra Leone. His description captures the profound impacts that climate change is having on coastal communities.

• 04/29/2019
• Julia Bradley-Cook

The implementation of climate resilient low-emission development (LED) strategies is essential for ensuring the integrity and performance of LED programs and projects in the face of evolving climate impacts.

• 04/11/2019
• Molly Hellmuth, Joanne Potter

At the February 7 Adaptation Community Meeting, Ashley Moran from the University of Texas at Austin presented the findings from a global USAID study on the intersection of global fragility and climate risks.

• 03/19/2019
• Ashley McIlvain Moran

What needs to come together in order to get a timely rainfall forecast to Senegalese farmers for the growing season? How can meteorologists in Rwanda ensure that their data and analyses benefit local populations?

• 02/21/2019
• Olga Krylova, Robert O'Sullivan, Ali Blumenstock

These are our top five most viewed webinars this past year.

• 12/18/2018
• Isabela Barriga

Climate Risk Profiles and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Factsheets are regularly among the most viewed and downloaded resources on Climatelinks.

• 12/18/2018
• Stephan Hardeman

This blog features some of our favorite videos that were added to the website in 2018.

• 11/20/2018
• Stephan Hardeman

The September Adaptation Community Meeting brought together experts from the USAID Office of Energy and Infrastructure, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the USAID Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project, and the USAID Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) project.

• 10/26/2018
• Joslin Isaacson

A program in Uganda's Karamoja region is helping communities resolve conflict over grazing lands even as more intense drought increases pressure on these lands.

• 08/10/2018
• Christine Chumbler

Climate risk management (CRM) ensures planning and programming is resilient to current and future climate impacts.

• 08/07/2018
• Climatelinks

The new global Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Project was one of the first activities to undergo USAID’s CRM process. The resulting extensive climate risk assessment highlighted the need to include strategies, interventions and assessments to build climate resilience both into program implementation and among beneficiaries in activity design.

• 08/07/2018
• Christine Chumbler, Elaine Gray