Recently, more than 150,000 people, of which about half are children, have been severely affected by floods in Niger and Nigeria. The torrential rain is expected to continue in southern Niger and northern Nigeria until end of September, which could lead to further losses of property.
Every year, as the weather warms, teams of Indian scientists trek the Himalayan mountains to study the Chhota Shigri glacier in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh.