The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Are Panthers unlikeliest team to end their playoff drought in 2022?

There are currently nine teams that haven't reached the playoffs in each of the last three seasons. Are the Panthers the least likely to end their drought?

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jun 21, 2022

Beyond Reasonable Drought: Severe Aridity Helped Foster Rise Of Islam, New Study Says

This is according to a new study conducted by an international team of experts.

Zenger · Jun 21, 2022

Monterrey suffers weeks-long water cutoff amid drought

The industrial hub of Monterrey has long been one of Mexico’s most prosperous cities, so its almost 5 million residents were shocked when they lost the most basic of services: water

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2022

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?

Reuters · Jun 20, 2022

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 · Jun 20, 2022

‘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 · Jun 20, 2022

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 · Jun 20, 2022

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.

360info · Jun 20, 2022

Lessons to stop drought becoming disaster

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

360info · Jun 20, 2022

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 · Jun 20, 2022