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Bone dry

An emaciated cow grazes on dry, yellowing grass in a cracked rice field in Barangay Bagong Silangan, as the looming El Niño worsens conditions...

PAGASA: 15 Luzon provinces hit by drought

At least 15 provinces in Luzon have been experiencing drought since April 19, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). These...

PAGASA sees dry months from June

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) issued an El Niño Alert on Wednesday after noting a 79% probability that the weather...

DSWD to aid over 23,000 drought-hit farmers in Isabela

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has committed to provide emergency cash assistance to around 23,000 drought-affected farmers in Isabela and nearby...

Real Cost of Climate Extremes

This is an AI-generated cartoon with the prompt: A horizontal editorial cartoon in pen-and-ink with textured cross-hatching. A weary Filipino farmer stands at a...

From drought to floods, water extremes drive displacement

AFGHANISTAN – Next to small bundles of belongings, Maruf waited for a car to take him and his family away from their village in...

DA, PhilSA forge data sharing agreement to mitigate impact of drought 

The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on December 16, 2024. This...

COP16 report warns three-quarters of global land ‘permanently drier’

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16...

Climate change, unsustainable land practices intensify droughts

Droughts across the world are intensifying and have become a “slow onset, silent killer” to which no country is immune, according to the UN’s...

UN says global drought carries $300b annual cost

RIYADH — Drought costs the world more than $300 billion each year, the United Nations warned Tuesday in a report published on the second...

Drought reduces Amazon River in Colombia by as much as 90%: report

The Amazon River has seen its levels in Colombia reduced by as much as 90 percent, a government agency said Thursday, as South America...

Amazon forest has lost an area the size of Germany and France

The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, a...

Morocco’s farming revolution: Defying drought with science

Marchouch, Morocco—In the heart of sun-soaked Morocco, scientists are cultivating a future where tough crops defy a relentless drought, now in its sixth year. "Look...

Severe El Niño resurrects doomed town

Pantabangan—A centuries-old settlement submerged by the construction of a dam in the northern Philippines in the 1970s has reappeared as water levels drop due...
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