The Van Gujjars – a pastoralist community in the Indian state of Uttarakhand – are on the frontline of climate change, but their role in forest management is...
Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather events as a result of climate change pose existential challenges to Southern...
Fires pose a major risk to the landscape of the South Caucasus region. With climate change, this risk will likely increase as temperatures become warmer...
The Climate Risk Profile for Eastern Africa provides forward-looking data on the climate in Eastern Africa with the goal of supporting resilience-oriented short...
To build resilience to water insecurity among vulnerable communities in Eastern Africa and beyond, research from the adelphi-WFP Climate Adaptation Learning...
The Sahel faces mounting human security and development challenges due to the complex interplay of diverse and growing risks in the region, including climate...
Extreme weather events are already adversely impacting the people and environment in Iraq. Record low levels of rainfall and poor water resource management...
Conflicts in the Sahel region are mounting. The Inner Niger Delta, located in the Sahelian zone of central Mali at the crossroads between lusher south Mali and...
Since the 1990s, Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been undergoing successful landscape restoration, helping provide food security and other ecosystem services...
Talks over the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have stalled following Ethiopia’s second filling of the dam in July last year. What is the...
The State of the River Nile Basin Report (SOB) 2021 for the Nile River provides a knowledge basis for transboundary water resource management. Building on the...
The Kandadji Dam project in Niger is projected to displace about 38,000 people living near the Niger River due to the ongoing activities. Focusing only on the...
The objective of this report is to support the UN Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) in promoting data-driven and evidence-based approaches in the Sahel...
With the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, and with the Afghan people’s climate-induced humanitarian needs as acute as ever, the need to promote resilience...
Abror Gafurov, a hydrologist at GFZ-Potsdam, the national research centre for earth sciences in Germany, tells The Third Pole what the latest research shows...