The protection of the world’s river deltas must be accompanied by a commitment to responsible water governance. The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) started holding meetings without official approval of the federal legislature. In order to work together with nations and communities, there must be an agreed upon respect for the rule of law. Government…
For thousands of years, the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon River Basin has sustained life and cultivated the landscape into a rich biodiverse environment filled with life in all forms. Current-day efforts to displace them are underway through illegal mining projects for gold, which are bringing in diseases, deforestation, and conflict similar to that of…
Rising temperatures, rapid urbanization and soaring demand for natural resources threaten deltas worldwide and make them vulnerable to rising seas levels, subsidence, droughts, floods, and salt intrusion. However, climate change projections in deltas often address climate-driven stressors in isolation and disregard parallel anthropogenic processes, leading to insufficient socio-political drive.
Climate of the Orinoco River The climate of the Orinoco basin is tropical, with the seasons marked by differences in rainfall rather than in temperature. The year is divided into two seasons—rainy and dry (locally known as winter and summer)—the former extending from April to October or November and the latter most marked from November…
