The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Here are six tips and tricks you can use to save water in your home, as drought warnings persist in England and Wales following an usually dry eight months in the UK

African countries face great challenges in adapting to climate change to meet growing demand for food. The current drought in East Africa is the latest manifestation of changing weather patterns.

As I drive across my family’s farm in the San Joaquin Valley, it feels as if I’m traveling on a chessboard. I cross one square with crops and then another without crops — our fields that must lay fallow. Our farm’s crops have been decimated by the drought.

Andras Eordogh admiringly watches his dozen foals as they frolic and kick up dust on his farm in the scorching summer heat and laments that he will have to sell most of them because of the changing climate in this rural southeast corner of Hungary.

As drought grips cities like Monterrey, people queue with buckets for brackish water. But Coca-Cola and other firms are still extracting groundwater

France is on track to experience its driest July on record, the national weather service Meteo France said Wednesday, with drought-like conditions leading to increasingly severe water restrictions around the country.

Bristol Water says it is not concerned

The Met Office's latest data shows July has so far been the driest for over 100 years with just 24% of the expected rainfall days after temperatures hit a record-breaking 40C, sparking fears of an impending hosepipe ban and ongoing drought

Millions of highly skilled environmental engineers stand ready to make our continent more resilient to climate change. They restore wetlands that absorb carbon, store water, filter pollution and clean and cool waters for salmon and trout. They are recognized around the world for helping to reduce wildfire risk. Scientists have…

Transporting freight on inland waterways is far more environmentally friendly than by road. But low rainfall and high temperatures have dramatically reduced water levels in France, limiting transport on canals around the Rhine river in particular.

Jaén (Spain) (AFP) - In the scorching heat, Felipe Elvira inspects the branches of his olive trees, planted as far as the eye can see on a dusty hillside in southern Spain.