year. Other than continued replenishment of aquifers in the southeast, Australia reversed course from 2010, becoming wetter in the west and dryer in the northeast. Drought in equatorial Africa and recovery from drought in the Indochinese peninsula also stand out. Aquifers in central California (Famiglietti et al. 2011) and northern India (Rodell et al. 2009; Tiwari et al. 2009), which are stres...

Soil carbon and plant diversity distribution at the farm level in the savannah region of Northern Togo (West Africa) M.-T. Sebastià, E. Marks, and R. M. Poch Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Pujada del Seminari s/n, 25280 Solsona, Spain University of Lleida, Av. Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain Received: 22 July 2008 – Accepted: 3 September 2008 – Published: 28 October 2008 Co...

The genus Tropiocolotes comprises small, naked toed, ground dwelling and nocturnal desert geckos, ranging from Morocco and Mauritania in northern Africa to south and central Arabia as well as coastal Iran. Herein, we describe a new species of the genus Tropiocolotes from western Iran based on five specimens from Nayband region. This new taxon is described with a statistical approach based on 34...

At 0058 GMT on 26 December 2004, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 struck the coastal area off northern Sumatra in Indonesia. A number of after shocks also occurred, some of magnitude 7.1. These earthquakes triggered tsunamis that affected Indonesia and neighbouring countries in Asia (including India, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Thailand) and the east coasts of Africa (including Soma...

Mesoceration hantam sp. nov. and Parhydraena faeni sp. nov., are described from the Hantamsberg plateau, an inselberg in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The new species are so far known only from temporary waters on the Hantamsberg summit, where they were both abundant. Sampling in these mountains also revealed an interesting accompanying water beetle fauna, including the northernmost known ...

4. Observations and Projections: Cryosphere, Ocean Dynamics, and Hydrology Introduction 4.1 The Cryosphere 4.1.1 Antarctica 4.1.2 Greenland and Eurasian Ice Caps 4.1.3 Montane Glaciers 4.1.4 Sea and Lake Ice 4.2 Ocean Dynamics 4.2.1 Sea Level Change 4.2.2 Ocean Heat 4.2.3 Ocean Circulation 4.2.4 Africa 4.2.5 South America 4.2.6 Antarctica 4.2.7 Northern Hemisphere 4.2.8 Miscellaneous 4.3 Precip...

A previously unknown radiation among flightless spring katydids (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Brinckiella) in Western and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa is described. Seven species are described as new (B. aptera n. sp., B. arboricola n. sp., B. elegans n. sp., B. karooensis n. sp., B. mauerbergerorum n. sp., B. serricauda n. sp., and B. wilsoni n. sp.) and one species (B. viridis C...

Telescopus finkeldeyi sp. nov. is described from western central to northern Namibia and south-western Angola. Its maximum size is less than that of the other three taxa occurring in southern Africa. It is further distinguished by its fairly variable colour pattern. Although the number of ventrals and the undivided anal scale are similar to that of T. beetzii, the presence of 19 scale rows arou...

Yola matsikammae sp. nov. is described from the Matsikammaberg, an inselberg on the northern edge of the fynbos biome of the Western Cape, South Africa. A key is provided to separate the new species from other southern African members of the Yola bicarinata group. Y. matsikammae sp. nov. bears a superficial resemblance to Sharphydrus species, particularly Sharphydrus brincki Bilton, 2013 with w...

This paper begins with an overview of the African rainfall regime, noting in particular the contrast among various regions Ž . of the continent, followed by a description of the nature of climatic i.e., rainfall variability over Africa on time scales of decades and centuries. The decadal scale is examined using modern data covering the twentieth century. The century scale is examined using hist...