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Cacti are popular horticultural addition to the arid garden landscape: they require very little water, they are always green, they thrive in hot climates and they are particularly ornamental, [...]

There are currently 20 SASSCAL research tasks focusing on assessments to understand the impact of land use on the environment under changing climatic conditions. The aim is to identify the [...]

The SASSCAL WeatherNet, a regional network of more than 140 Automatic Weather Stations, has been established as a central service facility that feeds weather data in close to real time via the [...]

The 18th Meeting of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Regional Office for Africa (ROA) Science Seminar was held at the Taj Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka, Zambia, on 15th March, 2017, as a [...]

We are excited to present our first Newsletter for the year 2017. The features in this newsletter include: An introduction to the newly appointed Executive Director Dr Jane Olwoch, An insight [...]

The Fifth International Conference on Climate Services (ICCS5) was held from 28 February to 2 March 2017 in Cape Town. It aimed at providing a platform for researchers, stakeholders, politicians, [...]

The SASSCAL OADC (Open Access Data Centre) will soon present a tool on its website that will depict the daily rainfall over the entire extent of the SASSCAL countries (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, [...]

As part of her orientation programme, the newly appointed SASSCAL Executive Director (ED), Dr Jane Olwoch, visited Zambia on 20th February, 2017. Dr Olwoch had a two-part programme while she was [...]

As part of research tasks 006 (Expanding the database for a robust regional climate change assessment and uncertainty analysis) and 203 (Climate Change and Impacts), SASSCAL offered a training [...]

From 21 to 23 February 2017, 25 Researchers from the SASSCAL consortium have joined forces in Livingstone, Zambia, to discuss the way forward in the areas of vegetation mapping and the monitoring [...]