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New global analysis shows that carbon pollution boosted June-August heat for billions of people in 2023. Countries that felt the strongest climate fingerprints have contributed the least carbon pollution.
Australian-built and owned cloud-based mapping software specialists, GapMaps, has expanded datasets in GapMaps Live in markets including India, Singap...
A portrait of Zaid*, 9, in his home near Taiz, Yemen
Datasets that have integrated migration and climate data are hard to come by. The Terrapops project, for example, provides extracts that include both migration data (built using national censuses) and climate data. These are useful, but variables in a single extract are often cataloged across different time periods, at varying frequencies, and at different resolutions, reflecting the different census choices made by contributing countries. The lack of standardization makes a single international dataset, similar to those the World Bank compiles, elusive.
Emerging infectious diseases are a growing threat in sub-Saharan African countries, but the human and technical capacity to quickly respond to outbreaks remains limited. Here, we describe the experience and lessons learned from a joint project with the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) to support the sub-Saharan African COVID-19 response. In June 2020, WHO AFRO contracted a number of consultants to reinforce the COVID-19 response in member states by providing actionable epidemiological analysis. Given the urgency of the situation and the magnitude of work required, we recruited a world...