A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday...
The Department of Agriculture is planning to reactivate the inter-agency El Niño Task Force to strengthen measures against the expected drought next year to...
Government agencies are joining forces to stave off a possible water crisis brought on by El Niño, the weather phenomenon characterized by below-normal rainfall...
Months without rain have left farmers across the vast US Midwest, part of the country's essential "breadbasket," seeing crop yields in freefall, with some...
The record heatwave and drought in China are stuff that will provoke the minds of scientists and environment activists.
Calls for a reduction in global...
CHONGQING, China—China’s autumn harvest is under “severe threat” from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face...
by Huw Griffith
Water supplies to some US states and Mexico will be cut to avoid "catastrophic collapse" of the Colorado River, Washington officials said...
By Tangi Quemener
ASHTON KEYNES, United Kingdom—At the end of a dusty track in southwest England where the River Thames usually first emerges from the...
By Valentin Bontemps
Madrid, Spain—Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it spends its water resources, which are used...
By Paula Ramon
Damon Ayala patrols the streets of drought-stricken Los Angeles every day, inspecting the sidewalks. Each time he sees a puddle, he stops.
He...
