The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Three years of unrelenting rain for inland New South Wales has some farmers wishing the water away, despite coming off the back of drought.

Across Somalia, the worst drought in half a century is wiping out livestock and decimating crops, with families leaving their homes in desperate search of food for their starving children. Warning: This article contains images and details readers might find distressing.

Farmer Neil Cairns, of vegetable growers Barfoots, in Botley, West Sussex, said the summer drought and scorching temperatures reaching 40C means pumpkins are not as big this Halloween as usual

Nearly the entire stretch of the Mississippi River has experienced below average rainfall over the past two months, reducing water levels on the river to near record lows

Colorado can expect a warmer and drier winter, putting the state at greater risk of wildfire and lessening the chance of rebounding from the ongoing megadrought plaguing the West, climate scientists say.

A second world war-era boat, half emerged B-29 plane and five other bodies have so far been found in the receding waters

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

Six areas are being moved to 'recovery'

The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Scientists suspect that a multi-year La Niña cycle has been amplified by climate change to prolong dry and hot conditions.