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Farmers are encouraged to tap into solar energy, but the high costs remain prohibitive for many individuals

Open access notables Publishing in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Rasmus Wuff proposes a new hydrometeorological metric to help track changes in precipitation as we change our climate, 'precipitation intensity duration index' or PID. As the title implies,  The World’s Largest Point Rainfall Found Using the Precipitation Intensity Duration Index reveals a rather eye-popping statistic: in 2007 over the course of just 4 days, Réunion Island's Cratère Commerson was drenched with just shy of 5 meters of rainfall- 4.936 meters to be precise. This p...

Uganda experiences a tropical climate with relatively stable temperatures throughout the year. The absence of distinct winter and summer seasons in Uganda can be attributed to its proximity to the equator and other geographical factors.

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‘I am not my trauma’: survivors of sexual abuse at a Ugandan girls’ shelter – photo essay Kate Hodal Eve was just eight years old and recently orphaned when she was taken to live at a girls’ shelter on Bugala island, in the Ugandan sector of Lake Victoria. Bery’s Place had been set up in 2006 by Bernhard “Bery” Glaser, a German national living in Uganda, as a refuge for traumatised children and victims of sexual violence. Yet Eve and other girls living there at the time say that Glaser was hiding a dark secret. Taking advantage of his “rich white foreigner”...