The Latest Breaking News from Drought

This industrial action 'carries the risk of a beer drought'

Local resident Patrick Ford stumbled on the rare ship in the Mississippi River while on a walk at the weekend as a huge drought has given archaeologists crucial information

Workers are now on strike until Monday

One child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as severe drought threatens to cause the deaths of children on a scale not seen in half a century, a spokesperson for UNICEF said on Tuesday.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) in Iraq issued a joint statement on the occasion of World Food Day on Monday on the future of Iraq’s agriculture and food security. The statement was issued amid a drought wave hitting Iraq for the…

Tower Rock in Missouri is usually waterlocked by the swirling currents of the massive Mississippi - but one of worst droughts in living memory has led to the new path

Baton Rouge resident Patrick Ford discovers sunken Brookhill trading ship as lack of rainfall creates record-low water levels

More than half of children aged under five in Somalia are facing acute malnutrition

Less than a fortnight ago, Declan Rice sat in the depths of Anderlecht’s Lotto Park and talked of his desire to start grabbing more games “by the scruff of the neck”.

Somerton, Somerset: There’s a strange tangling of abundance and dearth: chestnuts are overproducing seed, while beeches are nearly winter-naked

More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The situation in Somalia in the coming months could be a great deal worse, despite global commitments to never let the 2011 famine happen again.