Vector-borne diseases make a significant contribution to the disease burden in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), amounting to about one million years of potential life lost due to premature mortality or disability (DALYs).
New research aims to help control malaria in one watershed in northern Peru. Malaria is widespread in Peru's arid North Coast because of the extensive irrigation required to support rice paddies.
Sub-Saharan Africa faces the greatest challenges associated with climate change, yet has limited scientific capacity to manage their adverse effects.
Over the past 30 years, the Caboclos peoples of the Amazon region have noticed changes in the tidal floods, known locally as lançantes, on the floodplains of the Amazon Estuary, Brazil.
The Eastern Mediterranean is highly vulnerable to saltwater intrusion into the freshwater aquifers along its coasts. The degradation of these aquifers would result in serious socioeconomic consequence to people living there.
Recent changes in Burma offer the right climate to address the urgent need for evidence-based sustainable development research.
Canadian specialists are contributing to research examining the risks to and vulnerability of wetland areas along the Atlantic coast of South America.
People in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from poverty, food insecurity, a fragile economy, and social vulnerability. With climate change, they may also face increasing threats from vector-borne diseases.
Known for its dense human population, diverse wild animal species, and large population of domestic animals, Sri Lanka derives both risks and benefits from its wildlife.
Angola's civil war caused a massive movement of people from rural conflict areas to settlements in places vulnerable to climate extremes - low-lying coastal zones, floodplains, and steep ravines.