The Indian Monsoon, occurring between the months of May to September, is the major source of rainfall for more than 800 million people. While the Indian Monsoon occurs every year, there are substantial year-to-year variations in its geographic structure, local onset dates, and the amount of rainfall the monsoon brings.
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14Feb
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13Feb
At the 2018 Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture, Sarah Hendriks will explore the data and evidence behind gender equality and women's economic empowerment, as a driver to lift poor households out of poverty.
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09Feb
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, presents a Darwin College Lecture Series talk on refugee migration.
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08Feb
This panel discussion brings together key individuals influencing the global access to medicines. As the 2nd event in our King’s College Global Health Seminars, we focus on the access to medicines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs comprise a set of 20 diseases afflicting more than 1.9 billion people worldwide. These individuals are the poorest of the poor and mostly reside in areas of low-income countries that lack safe water and adequate sanitation. The donation of drugs for NTDs is one of the largest drug donation programmes, which partners governments from low-income countries, the World Health Organization, and the pharmaceutical industry
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08Feb
The theme for this year’s three-part series is neglected tropical diseases, which comprise a set of 20 diseases afflicting more than 1.9 billion people worldwide. These individuals are the poorest of the poor and mostly reside in areas of low-income countries that lack safe water and adequate sanitation.
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07Feb
The aim of the meeting is to bring together representatives from CCI partners working in the field of biodiversity and health to discuss subjects including:
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06Feb
ATBN and Watipa with support from Cambridge Social Ventures would like to invite you to join this evening of expert discussion, new ideas and networking
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06Feb
NERC invites applications from UK scientists to attend a networking workshop for the Wallacea region – understanding biodiversity and evolutionary responses to environmental change programme, which NERC has developed with its partner funding agency in Indonesia. Funding for the UK contribution to the programme is from the Newton Fund.
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01Feb
Professor Guy Standing presents his personal, positive vision - and then leads discussion - on how we can change the basic income paradigm to make a fairer, better-off 2027.
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01Feb
The Imperial College London Energy Futures Lab presents the 2017 Sustainable Gas Research Annual Lecture, given by Jonathan Stern, a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Energy Studies.