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Drought

November 2023

  • Flooding on a street in Beledweyne, in Somalia

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Ethiopia hit by severe drought amid east Africa floods

  • The canal leads to the main lake, but the surrounding area is now turning into desert.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Everything is dry and very sad’: Lake Titicaca gripped by drought crisis

  • A chain of people hold on to a rope as they wade through waist-deep waters

    ‘The river took it all’: Somalis wait for waters to recede as floods kill dozens

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    Health and climate
    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

  • The rural network
    Rain brings green shoots to Queensland, but not enough to avoid drought

  • Extreme drought in northern Italy mirrors climate in Ethiopia

  • The age of extinction
    Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet

  • Science Weekly
    Why is the Amazon rainforest drying up? – podcast

  • Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds

  • The rural network
    NSW households urged to reduce water use before state dips into drought

  • Weatherwatch
    Flash droughts are likely to become increasingly common, say researchers

October 2023

  • The historic drought wreaking havoc on Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reduced the mighty Rio Negro to a mere trickle, endangering the livelihoods of isolated Indigenous and riverside communities

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘For us, the Amazon isn’t a cause, it’s our home’: the riverside communities stranded by the climate crisis

  • Plane trees in Surry Hills. The City of Sydney has decided to stop planting Plane trees across the city in an effort to line the streets with more drought tolerant plants.

    Sydney turns over a new leaf and says goodbye to much-maligned plane trees

  • Floating houses and boats are seen stranded at the Marina do Davi, a docking area of the Negro river, city of Manaus in northern Brazil on 16 October 2023.

    Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia

  • Aerial view showing a boat and a ferry boat stranded on the banks of the Negro River in Manaus.

    Water level at Amazon port in Brazil hits lowest point in 121 years amid drought

  • Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates

  • Dead lawns, dry wells: Texas drought persists after summer heat dome

September 2023

  • Cattle producer Melinee Leather

    The rural network
    Australian farmers are coming off three bumper years. Are they prepared for the sudden dry?

    Beef and sheep prices have plummeted as farmers try to reduce livestock herds built up during La Niña years ahead of a dry, unproductive El Niño season
  • Landscape with deeply cracked red soil & trees on horizon under blue sky in outback Australia during devastating drought

    The rural network
    Drought funding should focus on programs with ‘lasting public benefit’, review finds

    The $5bn Future Drought Fund has underspent its $100m annual budget every year since it was established in 2019
  • Empty docks visible at the Antelope Island Marina on the Great Salt Lake in August 2022.

    Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’

    Environmental and community groups have filed lawsuit as the water body shrinks from overuse, hastening its demise
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