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Drought

October 2024

  • A tugboat pushing barges navigates around sandbars amid low water levels on the Mississippi River

    Climate warning as world’s rivers dry up at fastest rate for 30 years

    World Meteorological Organization says water is ‘canary in the coalmine of climate change’ and calls for urgent action

September 2024

  • The Battle for Laikipia

    The Battle for Laikipia review – brutal impact of British land ownership in Kenya

  • Lago Colhue Huapi 1 Lake Colhue Huapi 9 Nov 2023,

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We used to sail and fish and play’: how did an Argentinian lake the size of New York City disappear?

  • Elephants near a watering hole

    Zimbabwe outlines plan to cull scores of elephants to feed people after drought

  • Farmer Goyteom Tekele outside the warehouse of frankincense wholesaler Tesfaye Merasa in Abi Adi with his sacks of frankincense resin and bark

    The age of extinction
    How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction

  • Brazilian president flies into Amazon amid alarm over droughts and wildfires

  • Warm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm

  • Re-emergence of Greece’s sunken village shows extent of rainfall crisis

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    The bitter future of chocolate? How drought and a youth exodus threaten Mexico’s prized cocoa

  • The age of extinction
    The race to find out what killed hundreds of pink dolphins in the Amazon – in pictures

August 2024

  • Dried out fields in southern Sicily

    Overtourism and the climate crisis
    ‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink

  • An aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest with smoke rising from the jungle.

    ‘Nobody ever saw anything like this before’: how methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe

  • A firefighter is silhouetted hosing down a tree against flames burning in a forest.

    Hotter than ever
    ‘The place I love is in flames’: the people living and working in extreme heat

  • Fire illuminates smoke rising above a nighttime horizon of trees on a lake

    Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

July 2024

  • Demonstrator using a racket to throw back a tearinggas canister at riot police officers

    Five protesters and one police officer hurt in French reservoir demonstration

  • Goats belonging to Sicilian farmer Luca Cammarata drink from a muddy water pond near his drought-stricken farm

    ‘We can’t let the animals die’: drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future

June 2024

  • Dried-out ground on the edge of the Gaddara Dam, where water levels have dropped

    ‘Whack-a-mole situation’: Algerian officials wrestle with water shortage anger

    State not acting fast enough to build desalination stations to deal with dwindling rainfall and resulting drought, say critics
  • An aerial view of collapsed buildings

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Southern China hit by floods as north suffers from drought

    Heavy rainfall in Guangdong causes flooding, landslides and mudslides, while northern China gripped by heatwave
  • People use ropes to climb up the trunk of a giant sequoia against blue sky

    The age of extinction
    The end of the great northern forests? The tiny tree-killing beetle wreaking havoc on our ancient giants

    Forests across Europe, the US and Canada have been hard hit by drought, fires and bark beetles. Now scientists fear the northern hemisphere’s greatest carbon sink is nearing a tipping point

May 2024

  • Owner Mike Allen stands outside his popular Bishop feed store on Feb. 18, 2024.

    Revealed: The rural Californians who can’t sell their businesses – because LA is their landlord

    Los Angeles has long owned large swathes of the Owens valley. An investigation reveals how the city has tightened its grip
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