Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is…
The Financial Times: Water shortages put a brake on economic growth
In the face of China’s rapid economic expansion and growing…
Bureau of Meteorology: This summer hasn’t just felt hot. It’s been hot. The numbers are in, and the Bureau has…
The University of Adelaide: A worldwide review of global rainfall data led by the University of Adelaide has found that…
Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating, according to a…
NASA: An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a…
Guardian: Global warming is turning the volume of extreme weather up, Spinal-Tap-style, to 11. The temperature forecast for next Monday…
NOAA: 2012 was a historic year for extreme weather that included drought, wildfires, hurricanes and storms; however, tornado activity was…
AlertNet : As glaciers melt in the Andes, western areas of South America can expect a period of repeated, extreme flooding…
ClimateCentral: The graphic, based on data from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, shows that 1998 (white line) was the warmest…
NASA: Nearly two thirds of the contiguous United States was experiencing some level of drought by the end of August…
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Ukraine to Yellowstone, in Pakistan and Kazakhstan, the earth is parched
* Drought in the Black Sea region…
FAO: The severe deterioration of maize crop prospects in the United States following extensive drought damage pushed up maize prices…
Oxford Research Group: Rising food prices point to a potential crisis later this year as poor communities across the world…
treehugger: The drought gets worse: The US Drought Monitor reports that areas on the nation under extreme drought conditions in…
Climateprogress: The onslaught of extreme weather and record temperatures this year have had an impact on people globally, directly through…
AlertNet: The national Drought Monitor recently declared a drought for almost 80 percent of the contiguous United States, ranging in…
NOAA: Based on the Palmer Drought Index, severe to extreme drought affected about 33 percent of the contiguous United States…
ThinkProgress: The U.S. Agriculture Department has issued a natural disaster declaration for more than 1,000 U.S. counties facing severe drought. This…
UK Met Office: 10 July 2012 – Groundbreaking research has shown how climate change significantly increased the odds of some…
IPS: If climate change pushes the global average temperature to 2.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial era levels, as many experts…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
RTT: The journal Nature Climate Change contends that factors such as market policies or oil prices have comparatively little effect…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
(Reuters) – About 4 million hectares of crops are suffering from a severe drought in China that has hit 13…
(AlertNet) – Countries struggling to plot a greener energy mix face the extra headache of water scarcity from drought, squeezing…
(Reuters) – Ramiz Memidzan, 66, was a young boy when he last saw the village where he was born in…
NOAA concluded in 2011 that “human-caused climate change [is now] a major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts.” Reds…
(Reuters) – After Portugal’s driest February in 80 years, farmers are praying for a miracle as drought ravages pastures and…
The CCAPS program released the pilot version of its dynamic mapping tool today. In partnership with AidData, CCAPS developed the online data portal…
(AlertNet) – For almost two months, an intense drought has been damaging crops in Argentina, especially corn and soy, threatening…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate…
Bloomberg: Germany’s driest November has shrunk Europe’s rivers, creating monthlong delays for oil- and ore- carrying barges while uncovering the…
UNICEF: It’s not a tsunami or an earthquake – it is a predictable emergency. UNICEF estimates more than a million…
UNFCC: Building on recent reviews on climate change impacts on freshwater resources and adaptation strategies, this technical paper analyses existing…
(Reuters) – Mexico is being battered its worst drought in seven decades, which has devastated farm life and is expected…
Climate Central: Climate scientists have been wrestling with the first question for a while now, and they still don’t really…
Oct. 6 (UPI) — Northern and eastern Afghanistan is facing a severe drought affecting more than 12 million people, the…
AfricaNews: As the devastating drought causes havoc on the Horn of Africa region the number of people affected is staggering.…
IPS: Tlapa, one of the poorest places in Mexico, is ravaged by deforestation, intermittent drought and torrential rains, so that…
UPI: The main humanitarian focus is in East Africa, where the catastrophe sweeping the region has been a long time…
The blistering heat experienced by the nation during August, as well as…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
LOKICHOGGIO, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) – Cross-border armed conflict over resources among Turkana pastoralists in northeastern Kenya has increased following…
NASA: By July 2011, Texas and New Mexico had completed the driest six-month period on record. Average rain…
Scientific American published a three-part series authored by award-winning science journalist John Carey and commissioned by the Pew Center on Global…
FEWS NET/USGS has merged two historical rainfall data sets: interpolated rain gauge data from 1950‐2009 and satellite derived rainfall estimates…
The 2011 Horn of Africa famine is a famine occurring in several regions in the Horn of Africa as a…
LONDON (AlertNet) – One of the most severe droughts in 60 years has hit more than 10 million people in…
