1500 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://neweralive.na/posts/nuclear-techniques-helping-namibian-farmersNamibia is one of the driest countries in Africa. It is home to the world’s oldest desert, the Namib, as well as the Kalahari Desert, whose name derives from the Tswana word for ‘great thirst’. Approximately 92% of the country is defined as very arid, arid or semi-arid, and its rainfalls are rare and erratic.2023-09-05T18:15+0200newera-0ff52327f0dba853fe80be3bcf014e8e20230905181500https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/236811?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/236811[NAIROBI] Damage and deaths caused by climate-related disasters across Africa will balloon if the continent’s so-called “hydromet” infrastructure for monitoring weather and water and is not urgently upgraded, scientists warn. Hydrological and meteorological, or hydromet, hazards—including weather,....2023-08-28T14:47+0200alphagalileo-ea91c1c3b4d27c6bed52ef0641e5735a20230828144700https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/11/7/147Drought is one natural disaster with the greatest impact worldwide. Southern Africa (SA) is susceptible and vulnerable to drought due to its type of climate. In the last four decades, droughts have occurred more frequently, with increasing intensity and impacts on ecosystems, agriculture, and health.2023-07-13T15:12+0200mdpi-56d2c8daec48b507fb1398c8dc38207d20230713151200https://africanews.space/gmes-africa-strengthens-synergy-with-policymakers-to-address-climate-change-effects-through-eo-technologies/The Southern African Science Service Centre for Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) co-hosted this year’s GMES and Africa Southern African Regional Workshop that was held from 5 – 7 June 2023 in Luanda, Angola.2023-06-08T12:48+0200africanews-3ec5e1f5b9171b3bc97fef676a519a4820230608124800