Challenge: CAPACITY BUILDING RESOURCES GATEWAY
- hoaustin91
- Sep 24, 2022
- 2 min read
Team #4 Ricemakers: Austin Ho, Aldon Lam, Werner Wang, Nolan Ou
Nasa info for how they apply EO (Earth Observations) - NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission set launch for June 2022, with the purpose of investigating what affects temperature, whether being dust, soil, silt or clay. With the conclusion that, “Darker, iron-rich dust absorbs the Sun’s heat and warms the surrounding air, while lighter-colored particles, rich in clay, do the opposite” (“NASA's EMIT Will Map Tiny Dust Particles to Study Big Climate Impacts”).
List of sources
North America - The most prominent natural disasters that people from North America face are earthquakes, landslides, and droughts. Ironically enough, during other seasons flooding occurs all over North America.
South America - The preeminent type of natural disaster in Latin America is caused by flooding. Another major cause of suffering is, ironically, caused by drought.
Western Europe - Climate change is picking up pace in Europe, thrusting farmers and power generators onto the front lines of a battle with nature that threatens to upend the lives of the half billion people who occupy the world’s biggest trading block. Rainfall across central and northern Europe was 80 percent below average levels, resulting in agricultural losses and wildfires. And because of the less rainfall across central and northern Europe, leading to heavy agricultural production losses.
The series of heatwaves they are currently experiencing in western Europe is a clear sign of human-induced global warming.
Eastern Europe - In the eastern region experiences a variety of natural hazards, including floods, earthquakes, droughts, landslides, and wildfires.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/publication/europe-and-central-asia-country-risk-profiles-for-floods-and-earthquakes and https://eo4sd.esa.int/2017/09/05/expanding-eo4sd-scope-to-a-new-region/
North Africa - One of the major issues in North Africa is the little to no rainfall throughout the year. Many cities large crop farms die out and make the cities ration out their water to use.
Southern Africa - Most people believe that droughts were the only main issue that African citizens had but cyclones, flooding and even landslides during some parts of the years.
Asia ( South Asia + East Asia) - Asia comprises 48 countries and 3 dependencies. Most naturally occurring natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical storms, and landslides, though floods in Asia are most common. (“Trap Bag”)
South Pacific - In the Oceania region is where most of the most extreme wildfires occur. So extreme to the point that firefighters from other countries have to be sent over to help fight the fires.
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