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The federal agency plans to increase efforts to help states adapt to the effects of climate change most damaging to each region.

In today’s newsletter: One million people have already been displaced by the country’s second famine in just over ten years. This is how Somalia found itself in a dire situation once again

Global warming made drought conditions that gripped much of the Northern Hemisphere 20 times more likely, study finds.

Paris (AFP) - Human-caused climate change made this summer's drought across the Northern Hemisphere at least 20 times more likely, according to a rapid analysis released Wednesday that warns such extreme dry periods will become increasingly common with global heating. 

Widespread drought that dried up large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study

Record northern hemisphere drought in 2022 hit crops and power stations, worsening food and energy crises

Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts…

A lack of rain on the western coasts saw 65,000 dead salmon wash up on the creek

Appellate court ruling prevented special master from examining 100 files seized from Mar-a-Lago. Plus, a record-breaking pumpkin

Somalia is in the midst of the worst drought anyone there can remember

Despite some rainfall, state is still suffering from an extreme water shortage driven by the climate crisis – and La Niña may worsen it