Abstract The climate of South America (SA) has long held an intimate connection with El
Niño, historically describing anomalously warm sea-surface temperatures off the coastline of …

Abstract The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends
due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives …

This paper addresses a number of issues related to current and future climatic change and
its impacts on mountain environments and economies, focusing on theMountain Regions' …

This paper documents the main features of the weather, climate and climate variability over
Andes cordillera in South America on the basis of instrumental observations. We first provide …

The impact of global warming on insect-borne diseases and on highland malaria in
particular remains controversial. Temperature is known to influence transmission intensity …

Global change includes climate change and climate variability, land use, water storage and
irrigation, human population growth and urbanization, trade and travel, and chemical …

Summary El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate event that originates in the
Pacific Ocean but has wide-ranging consequences for weather around the world, and is …

The hydro-climatic variability of the Colombian Andes associated with El Niño–Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) is reviewed using records of rainfall, river discharges, soil moisture, and …

Global warming has serious implications for all aspects of human life, including infectious
diseases. The effect of global warming depends on the complex interaction between the …

An estimated 700,000 to 2.7 million people die of malaria each year, and 75% of those are
African children (www. cdc. govmalaria). Recent resurgence in the East African highlands …