Tag: drought

By Valentin Bontemps MADRID, Spain—An ongoing drought and soaring temperatures have unleashed fears of an olive “catastrophe” in Spain, the ...

Mindanao could be the hardest hit by the looming El Niño episode due to high water loss in the region, ...

A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a ...

The Department of Agriculture is planning to reactivate the inter-agency El Niño Task Force to strengthen measures against the expected ...

Government agencies are joining forces to stave off a possible water crisis brought on by El Niño, the weather phenomenon ...

Months without rain have left farmers across the vast US Midwest, part of the country's essential "breadbasket," seeing crop yields ...

On Sutton Page's ravaged cotton fields, there is almost nothing left to pick. The Texas farmer managed to salvage maybe ...

The record heatwave and drought in China are stuff that will provoke the minds of scientists and environment activists. Calls ...

CHONGQING, China—China’s autumn harvest is under “severe threat” from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect ...

A drought in Texas dried up a river flowing through Dinosaur Valley State Park, exposing tracks from giant reptiles that ...