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African Union Chairperson Assoumani confident of G-20 membership; urges members to invest in African industrialisation. Assoumani calls for world to help Africa with drought, conflicts, immigration crisis and Ukraine war. India can help Africa with capacity building and food supplies. AU to talk to Indian authorities to resolve rice export…

Former defence minister Oleksii Reznikov tells west that Moscow’s goal is ‘the destruction of Ukrainian statehood’

As dry soils contract, underground pipes rupture and cities must fix thousands of water leaks, frustrating conservation efforts and highlighting the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to a warming climate.

Oct NY world sugar #11 (SBV23 ) on Thursday closed up +0.46 (+1.75%), and Oct London white sugar #5 (SWV23 ) closed up +7.20 (+0.99%). Sugar prices Thursday posted moderate gains after the Thai Sugar Millers Corp projected Thailand's 2023/24 sugar production would fall by -18% y/y to 9 MMT...

Conservationists are frustrated as cities contend with thousands of costly leaks as dry soil contracts, causing underground pipes to rupture.

Unprecedented drought in British Columbia could usher in a fresh set of natural disasters, including devastating floods

TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu called for inter-linking of rivers to tackle drought on a permanent basis. He said it was not a major issue and could be implemented with vision and technical knowledge. He also criticised CM Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for neglecting the Polavaram project and not understanding…

Kerala's farmers face unprecedented weather aberrations: drought-like conditions, floods, and erratic rains. This has caused crop damage, delayed payments, and lack of water for irrigation. The State's reservoirs are at 36% capacity, and power cuts are likely. The ecological impact is more serious than food security, and farmers may be…

Karnataka said Tamil Nadu’s demand for supply of 24,000 cusecs per day was wholly unjustified and based on a completely erroneous assumption that the water year of 2023-24 was a normal one.

Slamming the Congress government for delaying declaring drought in the State, BJP leaders on Wednesday took exception to the statement of Sugar Minister Shivanand Patil, who has said farmer suicides increased after compensation amount was hiked for such deaths.

The winds that whip the towns of the Eastern Cape in South Africa have the power to generate energy. But on a dry, hot day, those winds can gather up embers and dump them into tinder dry savannah and forest, destroying crops, fodder and homes, and taking lives.