Volume 11, Issue 30, 2025 (Forthcoming Issue)

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Climate change and variability have significant impacts on communities living in third-world countries. The impacts caused by climate change and variability have been more severe on poor people, especially those in agriculture and livestock farming. The assessment of climate trends and their impacts at local scales is not well covered. This study assessed long-term trends in key climatic variables (rainfall, temperature, and relative humidity). A cross-sectional design combined climate data from the Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) with data gathered through household questionnaires, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and field observations. The study used Microsoft Excel 2021 and SPSS version 26 for data analysis to obtain the descriptive statistics and linear regression methods to model climate trends. The results show increasing trends for rainfall (p=0.92e-55), minimum temperature (p=2.24e-26), maximum temperature (p=4.82e-17) and relative humidity (p=1.55e-35). There was a significant positive relationship between climate variables. The climate variables have a unimodal characteristic. Rainfall starts in November and ends in May, while dry periods start from May and end in October.

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Climate Change and Variability: Assessing Rainfall, Temperature, and Relative Humidity Trends in Mtwara, Tanzania

Elewa Msomba, Josephat Saria, Brown Gwambene

Climate change and variability have significant impacts on communities living in third-world countries. The impacts caused by climate change and variability have been more severe on poor people, especially those in agriculture and livestock farming.

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e8cc3113

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Determinants of Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural (CSA) Practices among Arable Crop Farmers in Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Micheal Ige Ediabia EDABA, Adeyinka Richard AROYEHUN, Patrick Oyintonbra OLOGIDI

This research examines the elements influencing the adoption of climate-smart agricultural (CSA) techniques among arable crop farmers in Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e9cc3119

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Cholera Dynamics: The Influence of Climatic Variability (Temperature and Rainfall) in Sumbawanga District, Tanzania

Felex Kibona, Josephat Saria, Brown Gwambene, Honest Emmanuel

Cholera is a waterborne disease mainly caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It has a significant impact on humans, leading to fatalities, especially in third-world countries with poor sanitation and inadequate water supplies

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e10cc3127

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Vulnerability to climatic variability and its association with independent variables among dairy farmers in Jharkhand

Kumari Shweta, Jagarnath Oraon, Alok Kumar Pandey, Pankaj Kumar, Absar Ahmad

Jharkhand owns a huge cattle population of 8.78 million. Despite of having this large number of animals, the production of milk in the state is not satisfactory

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e11cc3131

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Two Decades of Sea Surface Temperature Trends in the Bay of Bengal (2004–2024) from Multi- Satellite Observations (NOAA, NASA, Copernicus)

Arnab Guha Neogi

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) plays a major role in monsoon dynamics, oceanatmosphere interactions, and cyclone activity in the Bay of Bengal, which is one of the most climate-sensitive regions of the Indian Ocean

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e12cc3137

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Invasiveness impact of Mesosphaerum suaveolens ([L.] Kuntze) on Kolda’s flora under changing climatic conditions in the subtropical forest of southern Senegal

Samba Laha KA, Moustapha GUEYE, Mamadou Ousseynou LY, Rahimi MBALLO, Godar SENE, Penda LO, Moussou Kéba CISSOKO, Abdoul Aziz CAMARA, Mame Samba MBAYE, Kandioura NOBA

Invasive alien plants represent a global challenge and are increasingly becoming widespread components of tropical and subtropical ecosystems worldwide. These plants can cause profound and sometimes irreversible ecosystem changes by altering floristic composition and reducing biodiversity

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e13cc3139

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Comparative Assessment of Climate Variability and Change on Coffee and Tea Cultivation in India

Milinda Mishra, Urmi Pattanayak, Jyotirmayee Acharya, Sonali Sahoo, Amrita Nath

Climate variability poses a significant threat to India’s coffee and tea sectors. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and recurring droughts reduce yields, deteriorate quality and endanger farmer livelihoods, making it essential to assess climatic impacts

Climate Change, 2025, 11(30), e14cc3141

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