Relief but from what?

After an excruciating drought, heavy rains lead to flash flood in Madhya Pradesh

Drought damage

Brown revolution

Dry spell

Malaysia

Indonesia

RICE CROP IN TROUBLE

Drought control

SOUTH KOREA

Foe in need

Right to food upheld

Too much soothsaying

How much rain?

Indo-French satellite to help forecast drought

In short

Aerosols increase drought severity over the Indian subcontinent

El Niño weakens the monsoon by transporting aerosols from lower altitudes in East Asian region up and into the higher altitudes, finds a …

Kerala: After the deluge, a drought in the works

Major rivers and wells in the state have seen their water levels dip precariously after a terrible flood hit the state in August

NDA trounces agrarian crisis to win rural areas

Despite the rural hinterland being in the throes of agrarian distress, the incumbent coalition has won handsomely in these very areas

Cyclone Freddy travelled from Australia to batter Madagascar, one of the most climate-vulnerable nations

The world’s fourth-largest island is suffering a drought since 2018; cyclones and also the first famine caused by climate change

Water insecurity hits sub-Saharan Africa hard: Report

People with lower levels of income and those residing on the outskirts of cities are more prone to water insecurity

‘Europe will witness more extreme megadroughts in the years ahead’

Down To Earth speaks to climate historian Christian Pfister from the University of Berne about Europe’s tryst with drought this year, in …

Somalia drought: FAO asks for $131 million to aid relief efforts

FAO has appealed since April last year, but the response has not been at the levels needed

Strong fires in 4 Brazilian states, Federal District, satellite images show

It will rain in the last quarter of the year in Brazil but it won’t be enough to end the drought aiding the fires, say experts

Taliban take-over: Afghanistan already battling drought, hunger, COVID-19

The now-absent government at Kabul had declared drought on June 22; half of its 30 million people are below the poverty line while 7,000 …

Resource literacy of the poor

We must invest in economies of poor, build capacities so they can withstand & overcome calamity

Drought to deluge: Kodagu was parched 3 months ago, now receives extreme rainfall

The district has received double the amount of August’s rainfall in just nine days