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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: September 6, 2021

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Posted at Sep 06 11:52 PM

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California hit by drought and massive wildifre

Josh Edelson, AFP
Posted at Sep 06 02:57 PM

A burned property is seen over a depleted Lake Oroville in Oroville, California on Sunday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 16, 2021

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Updated as of Aug 16 03:06 PM

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Drought in California

David Swanson, Reuters
Posted at Jul 16 09:33 AM

Experts say California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in over 20 years.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 07, 2021

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Updated as of Aug 16 03:09 PM

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Mecca, California in worst drought since 1977

Aude Guerrucci, Reuters
Updated as of Jul 07 08:46 AM

An aerial view shows agricultural fields as California faces its worst drought since 1977, in Mecca, Calif., in this drone photo taken on July 4, 2021. Read more »

Hunger, drought, disease: UN climate report reveals dire health threats

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 23 12:54 PM

Hunger, drought and disease will afflict tens of millions more people within decades, according to a draft UN assessment that lays bare the dire human health consequences of a warming planet.   Read more »

UN draft climate report: economic impacts

Marlowe Hood, Kelly Macnamara and Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 23 09:32 AM

Climate change is already taking a toll on the global economy, and forecasts predict worse to come by mid-century, according to a draft report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), seen exclusively by AFP.  Read more »

Sizzling heat wave blankets US Southwest

Dan Whitcomb and Scott DiSavino, Reuters
Posted at Jun 17 08:54 AM

LOS ANGELES - Much of the western United States baked for a third day on Wednesday under a punishing heat wave that has set temperature records, prompted health warnings and strained power grids. Read more »

‘Worst’ mouse plague devastates farms in latest disaster to hit Australia

Andrew Leeson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 06:03 AM

Plagues caused by the feral pest are not uncommon in Australia, but numbers this year have been "just astronomical," says one grain producer. Read more »

Dwindling water level in California’s second largest reservoir

Patrick T. Fallon, AFP
Posted at May 30 12:55 PM

Houseboats are moored at the Lake Oroville reservoir during the California drought emergency on May 25, 2021 in Oroville, California, USA. Summer has not even begun and Lake Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in California that provides drinking water to more than 25 million people, is at less than half of its average capacity at this time of year. Read more »

Drought-hit Taiwan plans more water curbs for chip hubs

Reuters
Posted at May 19 02:59 PM

Taiwan will increase curbs on the use of water from June 1 in the major chip-making hubs of Hsinchu and Taichung in a battle on an islandwide drought, should there be no significant rain by then, the government said on Wednesday. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 21, 2021

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Updated as of Aug 16 03:34 PM

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Taiwan sees worst drought in decades

Sam Yeh, AFP
Posted at Apr 21 06:48 PM

An aerial view shows a man walking past pink colored salt fields, caused by no rain, in Tainan, Taiwan on Wednesday. Read more »

Sea goddess, air force C-130s called upon to fight Taiwan drought

Ann Wang, Reuters
Posted at Mar 19 12:23 PM

HSINCHU, Taiwan - Taiwan is drilling wells, seeding clouds and beseeching a gold-faced sea goddess to help the sub-tropical island ride out its most serious drought in about half a century, after rain-soaking typhoons failed to make landfall last year. Read more »

Climate change to bring longer droughts in Europe: study

Amélie Bottollier-Depois and Kelly MacNamara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 07 06:09 AM

Punishing two-year droughts like the record-breaking one that gripped Central Europe from 2018 to 2019 could become much more frequent if the region fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions, researchers said Thursday, affecting huge swathes of its cultivated land. Read more »

45 million need urgent food aid in southern Africa: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 17 12:26 AM

Low growth, rising population, drought and floods have combined to worsen food insecurity in the region. Read more »

5,000 feral camels killed in drought-hit Australia

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 11:01 AM

SYDNEY - Helicopter-borne marksmen killed more than 5,000 camels in a five-day cull of feral herds that were threatening indigenous communities in drought-stricken areas of southern Australia, officials said Tuesday. Read more »

Drought-hit Zimbabwe to transfer thousands of animals

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 12 04:45 AM

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe’s wildlife agency said Monday it would move hundreds of elephants and other animals in a dramatic bid to save them from a lethal drought. Read more »

UN agencies: 45-M people in southern Africa facing food crisis

Reuters
Posted at Nov 01 12:10 AM

A record 45 million people across southern Africa face severe food shortages in the next six months, with around a quarter of them currently enduring drought-induced "crisis" food insecurity, three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday.   Read more »