Deale, Maryland – The United Nation’s weather and climate agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has entered into a cooperative agreement with the International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO) to help establish and sustain data rescue projects in Bolivia, Namibia and Uganda. Funds from the WMO’s Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP) are being released to IEDRO […]
Namibia
Press Release: Maiden IEDRO Trip to Namibia Scheduled
January 5, 2010
Deale, Maryland – In early 2009, Namibia experienced its worst flooding in four decades. 276,000 people, or approximately one in seven Namibians, were forced to leave their homes due to the floods, which washed out roads, destroyed cropland and hospitals, and caused the incidence of cholera and malaria to spike. A better understanding of weather […]