The Latest Breaking News from Drought

The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially declared El Niño is underway and scientists warn it could bring record hot temperatures and contribute to extreme events including droughts, cyclones and infectious diseases

Record dryness has restored an ecosystem under Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir

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Thailand should see greater opportunities to export rice in the second half of the year as countries that import are rushing to stock up on concerns about drought.

The Internal Trade Department says the droughts caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon have yet to affect the prices of local goods.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared on Thursday that the El Nino climate pattern is now underway, bringing the threat of more frequent tropical cyclones in the Pacific, increased rainfall and flooding in parts of the Americas and rising temperatures across the globe.

With their cattle killed by five years of drought, and aid agencies focused on children and mothers, older people in the Horn of Africa are facing terrible malnutrition

Thousands of West Ham fans lined the streets for the club’s trophy parade to celebrate the end of a 43-year trophy drought.

An El Nino is a natural, temporary and occasional warming of part of the Pacific that shifts weather patterns across the globe, often by moving the airborne paths for storms.