Tag: Drought

On Tuesday, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization released its first-ever State of Global Water Resources report, detailing the impact climate ...

This story originally appeared in science magazine EOS and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate ...

In Coalinga, a city in the center of California in the Central Valley, water is as precious as gold: rare, ...

Two-thirds of the Netherlands’ population, including its capital city of Amsterdam and several other major population centres, lie below sea ...

This story on the effects of drought in the American south-west on farmers was originally published by the Guardian, and is republished ...

Droughts affect nearly 55 million people globally every year. This year, they have affected the whole of Europe. Since early ...

Four consecutive years of insufficient and unprecedentedly low rainfall have brought on the worst drought the Horn of Africa has ...

As the historic 23-year megadrought in the American West, the worst in the region in over 1,200 years, continues to ...

Italy has declared a state of emergency in five northern regions battling the worst drought in 70 years, the government ...

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the world’s fifth largest wheat exporter, attacks against the country’s Black ...

Catherine Russel, UNICEF’s executive director, warns that local authorities have registered “dramatic” increases in child marriage across the drought-afflicted areas ...

Inhabitants of the Horn of Africa are currently preparing to face the most severe drought in the region since 1981. ...