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Abstract INFORM partners believe that the availability of shared analysis of crises and disasters can lead to better coordination of actors and better outcomes for at-risk and affected people...

The Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre has produced the "Science for disaster risk management 2020: acting today, protecting tomorrow" report, the second of its series. The report represents a...

Executive summary A large and severe drought has been affecting the western Euro-Mediterranean region. Dry conditions in the Iberian Peninsula are related to an acute lack of precipitation in the...

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Executive summary A large drought is affecting the regions within the southern Urals and the plains of Turan Depression on the north side of the Kope Dag and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. Countries...

La Plata Basin drought analysis published The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has issued an analysis of the persistent extreme drought, which started in 2019 and is impacting the La Plata...

Executive summary Sub-Saharan Africa has a long record of droughts that have caused extensive damage in the recent past. The high seasonality of rainfall, the number of people exposed and the...

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JRC Global Drought Observatory (GDO) of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) 22/06/2021 Executive summary Drought is affecting central-southern Brazil (including the states of Minas...

Executive summary A large region across Central and Western Asia is under drought conditions, including most of Iran, parts of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, with impacts of...

Executive summary Drought conditions are affecting eastern Syria and northern Iraq since early 2021 , especially in the governorates of Al-Hasakah (Syria) and Ninewa (Iraq), after poor winter...

Executive summary A strong dry spell is hampering the rainy season 2020/21 and the hydrological year in Angola, and especially the south-west provinces. Despite the normal precipitation at the onset...

Abstract The current report is focused on a technical screening and selecting exercise of climate/weather parameters and indices to be used in a bigger JRC Project on Climate Change Induced Migration...

Executive summary Parts of Turkey have been experiencing drought conditions, primarily centre-western regions and the east of the country. A below-average pattern of precipitation since mid-2019, and...

Abstract The 2020 edition of the Atlas of the Human Planet presents policy-relevant examples provided by users of Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) products. Following a call for contribution, 37...

Executive summary A pronounced rainfall deficit that accumulated throughout 2020, due to scarce precipitation during the first half of 2020 and the beginning of the 2020/2021 rainy season, is...

Executive summary ● A long-lasting drought is affecting parts of South East Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia) because of a combination of a precipitation deficit inherited from 2019...

Executive Summary At the beginning of the dry season, northern Mozambique, surroundings of Lake Malawi and western Madagascar show a marked precipitation deficit, cumulated primarily in the second...