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Indigenous lessons on climate change's slow-motion car crash

Indigenous communities around the world pioneered drought resilience and adaptation. As extreme heat intensifies, the world needs to heed their lessons, writes Ademola Oluborode Jeged

Newsroom.co.nz

California drought: ‘Smart’ water meters coming to San Jose, other Bay Area cities in latest effort to boost conservation

You’ve got a smart phone. Maybe a smart watch. Or even a smart doorbell.

Tribune News Service

Dams, taps running dry in northern Mexico amid historic water shortages

Her elderly neighbor is hard of hearing so Maria Luisa Robles, a convenience store worker in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, shouted the question a second time: Have you run out of water?

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A Somali boy's mission to find food as climate change takes its toll

Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day's mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend's yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes his prize through the mesh: lunch.

Reuters

‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving

Aguié’s clinic is full of malnourished children, with more dying in villages, as the global food crisis worsens years of drought

The Guardian - UK

Special Report: Cities in drought

In the grips of drought, cities are turning to innovative solutions to preserve their water supplies for the present and the future.

360info

Building resilience in Indonesia’s drought-ridden island of Java

Community engagement can ease the pressures of urban drought, but government interventions are the key to sustained change.

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Lessons to stop drought becoming disaster

The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters.

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Indigenous peoples have adapted to drought for millennia

Indigenous communities around the world pioneered drought resilience and adaptation. As extreme heat intensifies, the world needs to heed their lessons.

360info

From Cape Town to Santa Cruz: urban drought lessons

As cities move to secure their water supplies in the backdrop of extreme drought, two cities in two continents provide blueprints for solutions.

360info

Surviving the megadrought in Southwestern US

Parts of the United States have endured an epoch-defining megadrought, but continue to find ways to survive through a diverse policy-based response.

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Monsoon jitters: On rain deficit and droughts

Episodes of drought in India happen when the monsoon fails in July and August

The Hindu

Rays finally get some runs, and a win, too

BALTIMORE — The challenge for the Rays has been to score runs, and that they did Saturday, snapping a 15-inning drought that started Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Worst drought in 70 years threatens northern Italy’s food, power

Italy is in the depths of one of its worst droughts, with the country’s largest river, the Po, hitting its lowest level in 70 years, threatening crops and raising the specter of power outages.

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As wildfire season ramps up, PG&E expands instant power shutoff program

LOS ANGELES — As California prepares to enter the heart of wildfire season amid drought and historically dry conditions, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said Friday that it has expanded its instant power line shutoffs to cover more high-risk areas.

Radio France Internationale

Europe braces for sweltering weekend heat

Record temperatures, fires or drought: France, Spain and other western European countries braced on Saturday for a sweltering June weekend set to break records.

Tribune News Service

Omar Kelly: Ten reasons Dolphins should be playoff-bound in 2022

The Miami Dolphins have qualified for the playoffs twice this decade and own the NFL’s second longest drought when it comes to producing a playoff win.

Asharq Al-Awsat

In a Parched Land, Iraqi Gazelles Dying of Hunger

Gazelles at an Iraqi wildlife reserve are dropping dead from hunger, making them the latest victims in a country where climate change is compounding hardships after years of war. In little over one month, the slender-horned gazelle population at the Sawa reserve in southern Iraq has plunged from 148 to…

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Somalia Grants KSrelief Medal of Honor for its Humanitarian Efforts

Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Robley awarded the Medal of Honor to the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) for its distinguished efforts in providing urgent humanitarian and relief assistance in the country. The prime minister recognized KSrelief's aid to the displaced people who were affected by drought…

ABC News

Marine turtles' male drought has scientists seriously concerned about risk of population decline

Turtles are facing a male drought of their own, as hotter sand temperatures, due to climate change, produce far more female hatchlings than males. Scientists say if this continues unchecked, it could have grave implications for the species.

The Independent UK

From dry to deluge, how heavy snow, rain flooded Yellowstone

A culmination of unique events led to the recent extensive flooding in the Yellowstone region

Asharq Al-Awsat

Western Europeans Wilt in Early Summer Heatwave, Compounding Climate Change Fears

Spain headed for its hottest early summer temperatures in four decades on Friday, one area of France banned outdoor events, and drought stalked Italian farmers as a heatwave sent Europeans hunting for shade and fretting over climate change. Such was the heat that England's upscale Royal Ascot Racecourse even saw…

The Independent UK

Drought threatens northern Italy crops as heatwave grips Europe

The country’s longest river, the Po, is experiencing its worst drought for 70 years

Reuters

Western Europeans wilt in early summer heatwave, compounding climate change fears

The Guardian - UK

‘We worry about it disappearing’: alarm grows over Italy’s drought-hit Po River

Drought blighting country’s longest waterway continues as economic hub battles climate crisis

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