The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Even as Mysuru district has fodder stocks that can last for the next 24 months, farmers are being given kits containing fodder seeds to cultivate forage for livestock as a measure to ensure fodder availability until next monsoon.

Labour Minister Santosh Lad calls for coordination to ensure effective implementation of drought relief and development works in Dharwad district. He stresses need for increased persondays under employment guarantee scheme and awareness programmes to educate job card holders. Navalgund MLA N.H. Konaraddi and DC Gurudatta Hegde also present.

With the onset of paddy harvest, farmers in Mysuru are now being persuaded to employ manual labor for harvesting instead of deploying machine harvesters for accruing sufficient fodder quantity.

Matthew Stafford went from playing every Thanksgiving to joining the team with the longest drought in the NFL

In tonight's edition: The leader of South Africa's leftist opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters and five other members face suspension without pay after being found guilty of contempt of parliament. In Zimbabwe, dozens of volunteers are working around the clock to try to assess the effects of drought on…

In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief to its second-largest national park

First, some families fled drought and violence

The current drought situation in the Amazon, which has taken on a new level of severity this year, is influenced by two exceptional climatic conditions: the abnormally high temperature of the North Atlantic waters and the presence of the El Niño phenomenon. Despite these remarkable climatic conditions, however, the human…

SC Advocate-on-Record D. Sivarami Reddy filed a KURNOOLA writ petition in SC, seeking direction to Govt. to construct a barrage at proposed site of cable bridge across Krishna river. This would address drinking & irrigation water needs of drought-prone Rayalaseema region. Centre proposed bridge as tourist spot, but AP parties…

The shocks from a relentless climate crisis have upended the lives of millions in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region.

The Amazon is facing an unprecedented drought that is projected to continue affecting the region at least until mid-2024. The lowest water levels in 121 years of river-level records have been recorded in the city of Manaus. Vast areas of the Amazon River’s bed have been exposed, and more than…