Drought, land degradation affect 1.5 billion people: UN report
UNCCD’s global report on desertification, land degradation and drought explains the current scenario through figures
Climate change triggered droughts in Northern Hemisphere: Study
Conditions in the Northern Hemisphere would only have been anticipated once every 400 years if humans had not warmed the Earth
UNCCD COP14 throws up innovative methods to fund drought mitigation
Commercialisation of basic livelihood and services like water and sanitation would generate sufficient funds to mitigate drought, they said
New method can help predict reservoir levels three months in advance
Advance warning about likely deficit in reservoir storage could help in water management during droughts
NGOs left holding the baby
The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary
Planetary summer: Why Europe may have reached a point of no return on prolonged droughts, heatwaves
Droughts are becoming a new reality for Europe, latest scientific projections suggest
Why is Karnataka protesting change in definition of drought?
New norms for declaring drought are too stringent to be practical and are indicative of Centre’s intention to pass on the financial burden …
In the Parliament on March 8, 2016
Here’s a round-up of today’s debates and reports on environmental and developmental issues
Going back to the past for a better future
The Tarun Bharat Sangh is helping drought-hit villagers of Alwar district of Rajasthan grow crops by reviving a traditional system of dam …
Drying planet: Drought has become a truly planetary disaster in 2022
Climate change is fuelling the intensity of drought in already vulnerable regions while tightening its grip on not-so-vulnerable areas
Jharkhand’s children deprived of mid-day meal despite Supreme Court order, say activists
Jharkhand is the one of the worst-affected states in the country with its 22 out of 24 districts facing drought
Saurashtra woes: Helpless farmers hope for the miracle of water
Arid Saurashtra in Gujarat has been facing an acute agrarian crisis due to lack of water for irrigation
Conflicts over water
Four of the 10 drought-hit states in the country face chronic conflicts because of poor water management and diversion of water to urban areas
Supreme Court directs Centre to prepare national disaster plan to tackle drought
The apex court has directed the Union government to revise the Drought Management Manual at the earliest till the end of 2016
'Traditional water management systems key to water security'
Yogesh Jadeja is the director of Arid Communities and Technologies, an organisation that has been active in Bhuj and Kachchh areas of Gujarat …
Bundelkhand's bravehearts
For villages that survived recurring droughts, the economic-ecological connection makes more sense
Four factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters
Three additional natural factors are also helping drive up global temperatures and fuel disasters this year: El Nino, solar fluctuations and a …
In-depth coverage: Drought, but why
Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management
One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians
We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price
Drought but why: What happened to the promise of a drought-free Maharashtra?
Between October last year and February this year, the state government has declared 151 talukas and 268 revenue circle as drought-hit.
Where does the water go during a drought? Germany researchers try to find out
Researchers examined how the process of evaporation and groundwater recharge differed under various kinds of soils and land uses
Drought, but why: Karnataka’s water woes won't go away by throwing money on it
Across Karnataka successive monsoon failures in 2018 brought on dire straits for the farmers
How to fight water scarcity this monsoon
Though the monsoon is behaving erratically, drought-prone districts are still water rich
It is not a drought
As they say, drought is a disaster one can see coming. Deficit monsoon creates situations for a drought. But it is not deficit monsoon, rather …
Security ring: How MGNREGA rejuvenated tanks of a Tikamgarh village
A network of 55 tanks that get filled up one after the other when it rains, has cured this village of droughts