Closing the Early Warning Gap Together WMO recently confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record. Changes in our environment are driving more extreme weather events. Rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, devastating rainfall, storm surges, flooding, deadly droughts, and wildfires are on the rise. Sea levels are increasing, exposing densely populated
Many centuries ago in ancient Persia there ruled Jamshid, a powerful and wise king who had people and genies under his rule. He brought his people knowledge, crafts and laws, taught them to build cities and make clothes. And one day, on the day of the spring equinox, Jamshid ascended
Melting glaciers Melanie Biausque/WMO Photo Competition UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have officially launched the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation on January 21st, 2025, marking a crucial milestone in global efforts to protect these essential water towers that provide freshwater to over 2 billion people worldwide. The United
Photo:UN-Water Glacier preservation Glaciers are melting faster than ever. As the planet gets hotter, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing, causing floods, droughts, landslides and sea level rise. Countless communities and ecosystems are at risk of devastation.
Glaciers are considered as important water towers since they store approximately 70% of the global freshwater. Photo:DJoseph/Adobe Stock Glaciers: Guardians of Earth’s Future Glaciers are nature’s frozen sentinels, vast rivers of ice and snow that carve the Earth, silently bearing witness to the passage of time and the shifting rhythms
Forests, crucial ecosystems for food security Forests, pillars of global food security and nutrition, are the livelihoods of millions of families. They provide essential foods such as fruits, seeds, roots and wild meat, fundamental resources for indigenous and rural communities. But its function goes far beyond. Forests are a vital
These technologies are not cheap, but they will reduce farmers’ costs for fertilizers, irrigation and increase yields. Tajik farmer Photo: from the website adb.org Experts from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have identified five of the most promising types of digital agriculture technologies for farmers in Tajikistan. They were
In Almaty, it is increasingly rare to see wild birds traditional for our city – sparrows, titmice, thrushes… Somehow their cheerful voices have quietly and imperceptibly dissolved into space, they themselves have disappeared… What is happening? Our interlocutor is a junior research fellow at the laboratory of ornithology and herpetology
Mortality from climate change and air pollution will increase. We report on the results of a study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany What is the trend? Climate change is not a problem of the future. Global warming caused by increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas
The dire predictions, made in a study by an international team of scientists including representatives from the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology and the Central Asian Institute of Environmental Research (Kazakhstan), show that even a moderate drop in the Caspian Sea level by 5-10 meters will lead to catastrophic consequences
