Overall Orange Drought alert for Hispaniola-2019 in Dominican Republic, Haiti from 21 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC to 05 Apr 2019 09:27 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Drought for Hispaniola-2019

in Dominican Republic, Haiti

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 4 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID	DR 1012765
Name:	Hispaniola-2019
Countries:	Dominican Republic, Haiti
Start Date:	End of Nov 2018
Duration:	135 days
Impact:	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 48483 km2
More info:	Global Drought Observatory

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”Dos pesos de agua“ o la magia de doña Remigia 3/21/2019 11:00:00 AM.

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Poche specie nel piatto, e a rischio estinzione 3/4/2019 4:34:00 PM.

La biodiversità delle specie vegetali e animali sulle quali contiamo per mangiare è a rischio: gli organismi che costituiscono lo "zoccolo duro" dell'alimentazione umana sono in declino, a causa di una gestione scorretta della terra e dell'

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Cambiamenti climatici e crisi umanitarie, fenomeno ignorato dai media 2/22/2019 9:22:00 AM.

; Secondo un’analisi condotta da Care International, nonostante sia chiaro il nesso tra cambiamenti climatici e crisi umanitarie, i media non si interessano al fenomeno: su un milione di notizie online analizzate, poco più di mille notiz

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Analytical report

29/Mar/2019 14:27 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),

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