The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Lake Garda’s water levels have dropped to the lowest recorded in 15 years after scorching temperatures in Italy.

Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width

The prolonged heatwave has seriously affected the environment, particularly rivers and reservoirs

Mulch, grasses, gravel … The West Sussex garden created to cope with hotter, drier summers and mild, soggy winters

A hosepipe ban has also been issued for 60,000 households in one area of the country

Natural Resources Wales said the threshold to trigger drought status in south-west Wales was met on Friday.

China has issued its first national drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires and mobilise specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures across the Yangtze river basin.

A violent and unexpected storm battered the French Mediterranean island of Corsica on Thursday, killing at least six people including a teenage girl, and meteorologists predicted more bad weather to come.

France’s vineyards have had a difficult year thanks to the effects of climate change – with late frosts, hailstorms, repeated heatwaves and a historic drought. The industry is trying to adapt to this onerous new reality through a variety of techniques, from bringing back forgotten grape varieties to moving their…