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Climate change: colonial diaries in South Africa are helping scientists reconstruct weather patterns of the past to protect against future events

The current climate crisis raises many questions. Some are forward-looking: how can this be fixed? Some look to the recent past: how did we get here? And some reach further back into history: are today’s extreme heat waves, catastrophic droughts and floods all due to climate change? Was climate and…

The Conversation

Drought declared across whole of Wales despite recent flooding

Country-wide drought is first for 16 years, after third-driest six months since records began

The Guardian - UK

Father 'lucky to be alive' after 35ft fall now can't work amid cost of living crisis

Tree surgeon Grant Clark, 35, spent three weeks in hospital after a terrifying fall and now requires full-time care from his wife

Wales Online

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Storms, early spring rain delight outback residents still recovering from drought

After the wettest winter in six years, outback locals delight in a rainy start to spring, helping the country still recovering from drought.

ABC News

Falling leaves in August: has autumn come early?

UK’s drought has caused leaves to turn brown – but this is a defensive reaction by trees to conserve water

The Guardian - UK

Water use drops 10% in July as California deals with drought

California’s water use dropped more than 10.4% in July compared with two years ago as the most populous state struggles with a years-long drought

The Independent UK

A lost world returns with a warning

America's mega-drought is revealing natural wonders unseen in decades. But their return from the watery depths heralds a deepening crisis.

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When it comes to fighting climate change, California says consider the beaver

LOS ANGELES — As California grapples with drought, a record heat wave and persistent wildfires, one state agency is turning to the beaver in its battle against climate change.

Los Angeles Times

China reports ‘most severe’ heatwave and third driest summer on record

Average temperature in August was 1.2C higher than norm, which caused widespread drought

The Guardian - UK

Drought and hunger in Somalia, Ethiopia and region: What to know

Millions of people are facing food shortages due to the worst drought in 40 years and rising global food costs.

Al Jazeera

Hemp was supposed to save Texas farmers during a drought. It hasn’t yet.

Hemp advocates promised the Texas Legislature the crop was drought resistant. The 2022 drought has proven otherwise. And farmers are abandoning the nascent market.

The Texas Tribune

The crisis in Jackson shows how climate change is threatening water supplies

Historic flooding and record droughts are stressing water systems across the country, and experts warn that with climate change intensifying the crisis in Jackson, Miss., may be just the beginning.

WEKU

China droughts highlight energy challenge as climate heats up

Hotter weather is expected to push China’s enormous energy consumption even higher in the coming years.

Al Jazeera

UN says at least $1 billion needed to prevent famine in Somalia

The UN humanitarian chief predicted Tuesday that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia in the coming months and early next year when two more dry seasons are expected to compound the historic drought that has hit the Horn of Africa nation.

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The Independent UK

Nebraska drought exposes remains of steamboat that sank in 1870

Drought has caused the water level in the Missouri River to fall significantly

The Independent UK

Mysterious white mounds spark alarm after appearing across Great Salt Lake: ‘We are concerned’

Droughts in the US west have created a perfect condition for the strange mounds to form

USA Today Sports Media Group

‘A land of permanent drought’: Desert golf courses in California work to cut water usage

From taking out turf to upgrading irrigation systems, golf courses are constantly focused on water.

Wales Online

Food, computers and other goods could be in short supply this Christmas

There could be more delays in the shipment of certain goods, particularly those made in Asian countries

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The Guardian - UK

Over-consumption and drought reduce lake in vital Spanish wetland to puddle

Experts and environmentalists say aquifer feeding Doñana national park, a Unesco heritage site, has been overexploited for tourism and to water fruit farms

Al Jazeera

UN humanitarian chief says ‘famine at the door’ in Somalia

At least 1 million people in Somalia have been displaced by the worst drought in decades, driven by climate change.

The Independent UK

Australia’s giant thunderbirds likely went extinct 40,000 years ago due to climate change, study finds

Climate became much drier with increasing seasonal variation and unpredictable droughts

The Guardian - UK

Drought likely to push parts of Somalia into famine by end of year, warns UN

World is ‘in last minute of the 11th hour to save lives’, says aid chief, amid fears that crisis is worse than 2010 famine, when 250,000 died

Los Angeles Times

Mary McNamara: September is the cruelest month — at least in LA

If I ever leave Los Angeles, it will not be because of the traffic, or the city's inability to aid the unhoused, or even the sight of all those celebrity lawns in the middle of a drought.

Bangkok Post

Deadly earthquake adds to drought, Covid woes in China's Sichuan

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake killed at least seven people in Sichuan province on Monday, in the latest blow to the region in southwestern China hit by Covid lockdowns and a historic drought.

WEKU

The U.N. says famine will reach parts of Somalia later this year

The United Nations says "famine is at the door" in Somalia with "concrete indications" famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region.

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