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US forest chief calls for pause of prescribed fires

Federal officials are warning that expanding drought conditions coupled with hot and dry weather, extreme wind and unstable atmospheric conditions have led to explosive fire behavior in the Southwest

The Independent UK

California's Water Bureaucrats Are Making a Bad Drought Worse

Fifty percent of the state's water flows to the Pacific Ocean. Another 40 percent is used for agriculture. But it's average residents who are being forced to cut back.

Reason

Cloth bags made by women of drought-hit Dalit hamlet in Andhra Pradesh travel the world

Meet the women from a Dalit hamlet in the Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, who are behind the successful Paalaguttapalle Bags enterprise that provides them a sustainable livelihood

The Hindu

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Flood Alert: Colorado River Basin Will See Earlier Snowmelts Predict Scientists

Spring floods are likely to arrive increasingly early in the year for the vast majority of the Colorado River Basin as climate change brings about a shift in peak streamflows.

Zenger

Milan on Brink of Historic Title as Thrilling Season Heads Down to the Wire

Europe's most dramatic title race will finally reach its climax on Sunday when AC Milan take the field at Sassuolo ready to end an 11-year Scudetto drought and announce their return to the top table. Stefano Pioli's side are two points ahead of reigning champions Inter Milan and only need…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mad Max: Furiosa filming drives economic recovery in Hay after COVID-19 and drought

With the Mad Max production bandwagon in southern NSW, it is providing Hay a much-needed economic boost after a few tough years due to drought and COVID.

ABC News

Internal displacement at all-time high, with five million IDPs in Ethiopia alone

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…

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Grim 2022 drought outlook for Western US offers warnings for the future as climate change brings a hotter, thirstier atmosphere

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 Conversation

Drought Alert: European Drought Of 2018-20 Worst In 250 Years And Will Likely Be Repeated

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.

Zenger

Another Summer Sizzler Expected In Europe

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

Zenger

NSW town Weilmoringle prepares to be cut off for winter, as rain replaces drought and closes roads

The community of Weilmoringle is bracing to spend much of winter cut off due to wet weather closing the dirt roads it relies on.

ABC News

Vast swath of US is at risk of summer blackouts, regulator warns

A vast swath of North America from the Great Lakes to the West Coast is at risk of blackouts this summer as heat, drought, shuttered power plants and supply chain woes strain the electric grid. Power supplies in much of the U.S. and part of Canada will be stretched, with…

Tribune News Service

Drought and soaring food prices from Ukraine war leave millions in Africa starving

A report finds 23 million people are experiencing extreme hunger in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, which face their worst drought in 40 years. Food prices hit record highs after Russia attacked Ukraine.

WEKU

PGA Championship tee times 2022 as Rory McIlroy is included in standout group

McIlroy seems to be trending towards ending his eight-year major drought

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Al Jazeera

Hassan Mohamud: The second coming of Somalia’s new president

The new president will have to tackle insecurity, rising inflation, severe drought – and reunite a fractured government

AAP

NSW out of drought after flooding rains

NSW has largely emerged from two years of drought but farmers' woes are far from over as they struggle to recover from multiple disasters in recent years.

ABC News

New South Wales is now officially drought free, but not all farmers are celebrating

Some areas of the state went from being bone dry to under water during the past few years, but for those who missed out on the bulk of the rain the pronouncement that the drought is over is not altogether convincing.

The Guardian - AU

Barnaby Joyce’s drought envoy texts not ‘documents of a minister’, prime minister’s office claims

PMO again refuses freedom of information request to release any messages Joyce says were reports on his work

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The wildfires burning in the Southwest are bad but 'not unprecedented'

Experts say the Southwestern U.S. is drier than it's been in some 1,200 years, which is one of, but not the only, drivers of the large infernos burning in New Mexico.

Radio France Internationale

How Ethiopia's 'false banana' could be the crop to face climate change

The enset plant – commonly known as the false banana – feeds some 20 million people in the highlands of Ethiopia. But its potential is far greater. Resistant to drought and able to grow all year round, scientists believe enset could be the superfood the continent needs to face climate…

Manchester Evening News

London and UK cities could run out of water 'in 25 years' amid severe drought warning

Global water use has grown at more than twice the rate of population increases over the 20th century

Al Jazeera

Somalia elects Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as new president

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud faces ‘huge tasks’, including containing al-Shabab attacks and addressing a devastating drought.

ABC News

Australia's insolvency drought might end with an unwanted flood

As the pandemic roared in during early 2020, rapid and astonishing shifts were made to prop up an economy sledgehammered by lockdowns, restrictions and fear.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq's Prized Rice Crop Threatened by Drought

Drought is threatening the Iraqi tradition of growing amber rice, the aromatic basis of rich lamb and other dishes, and a key element in a struggling economy. The long-grained variety of rice takes its name from its distinctive scent, which is similar to that of amber resin.

Los Angeles Times

Heed the warnings of this palm tree, a 200-year-old drought survivor

About 200 years ago, a palm tree was planted in downtown Los Angeles.

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