The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Nearly 60 million people are internally displaced worldwide. The war in Ukraine is one reason for the spike but other conflicts, severe food insecurity and drought in sub-Saharan Africa are also factors. Also, as healthcare workers in Zimbabwe leave in droves for better paid jobs overseas, our reporters look at…

Much of the western U.S. has been in the grip of an unrelenting drought since early 2020. The dryness has coincided with record-breaking wildfires, intense and long-lasting heat waves, low stream flows and dwindling water supplies in reservoirs that millions of people across the region rely on.

The drought in Europe between 2018 and 2020 has set the benchmark for droughts on the continent according to the most detailed study of the water shortage carried out to date.

AccuWeather says high temperatures will again prevail across most of the continent following its hottest summer on record in 2021.