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…
• The total population in need in the region is about 10.7 million people. This figure includes some 778,000 refugees…
ActionAid: Poor rains in the last two wet seasons have led to severe drought across large parts of the Horn…
VIDEO: 30 June 2011 – UNICEF’s Regional Emergency Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa, Robert McCarthy, dicsusses the food crisis…
Some 10 million people are at risk in the Horn of Africa as two years of drought have forced food…
More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the…
The Global Drought Monitor is a free internet application which monitors the severity of drought worldwide on an ongoing basis.…
At least 10 people have been killed after clashes broke out in northern Kenya over control of grazing land and…
Heavy rains in central China last week will help China produce extra hydroelectric power in the coming weeks, but not…
The Wallow Fire continues to burn in Arizona and New Mexico, consuming 487,016 acres. The U.S. Forest Service reports the…
Lake Buchanan in Central Texas and Lake Travis:
These two lakes serve as key water sources for dozens of cities and…
Individual weather events are not “caused” by any single phenomenon—and climate change’s contribution to individual events will not be resolved…
New York Times: The world’s third-largest river — stretching from the Himalayas thousands of miles to the east meeting the sea…
YouTube: an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
Bill McKibben…
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Extreme weather conditions across Europe have transformed the continent into a climatic roller…
Climate is a key determinant for today’s demography. Climatic conditions change over time due to natural climate variability, but changes…
Scientists Warn Disaster Looms for Parts of Africa and All of India if Chronic Food Insecurity Converges with Crop-wilting Weather;…
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave…
Resource analysts say the drought highlights not only the impact of climate change, but also China’s persistent problem of water…
Reuters – Confronting a huge and growing power crisis, China faces a painful choice: either allow a summer of blackouts or…
