Restoring Indonesian peatlands, protecting our planet
In its natural state, tropical peat occurs in flooded swamps and is one of nature's most effective ways of removing carbon from the atmosphere, ...
In its natural state, tropical peat occurs in flooded swamps and is one of nature's most effective ways of removing carbon from the atmosphere, ...
Indonesia is home to half the world's tropical peatlands, which are areas covered by organic soil that form over time as decaying plants fall to the ground ...
Japan is contributing $500000 toward a UNOPS-implemented project to rehabilitate four centres damaged by Tropical Cyclone Sagar last year.
On Christmas Eve 2013, a tropical storm resulted in heavy rainfall in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which led to intense flooding across the island.
Côte d'Ivoire boasts gorgeous coastlines, rainforests and sub-tropical savannas. As the world's top exporter of cocoa beans and cashew nuts, ...
For example, a few years back, in San Salvador, a city exposed to increasingly strong and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes.
San Salvador, El Salvador, is a city exposed to increasingly strong and frequent tropical storms and hurricanes. Rivers in the city flood regularly, ...
Only a few days ago, we saw how the tropical storm Matthew wreaked havoc and killed more than a thousand people in Haiti. This is wrong.
Buntoi is a remote village of nearly 3000 ethnic Dayaks, tucked deep into the dense tropical forests of Central Kalimantan province, on the island of Borneo ...
El Salvador is vulnerable to natural hazards and exposed to a growing number of tropical storms and hurricanes from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.