The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Create an outdoor space that requires minimal water and maintenance, and is environmentally friendly too

Sleep-deprived Indian shuttler HS Prannoy had almost given up on winning his next title and breaking a six-year long drought before chief national coach Pullela Gopichand instilled in him the belief that he remains a force to reckon with.

Hockey is supposed to be Canada’s game. Yet the last two Canadian-based NHL teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Oilers, have been eliminated from the tournament. This lengthens the three-decade drought since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.

Haaland hasn't found the net in three games – almost unheard of by his outrageous standards – but Guardiola isn't remotely worried

Editorial: As drought becomes the norm, creative solutions must be found to deal with a new, parched reality

Torrential rains on Thursday that followed a prolonged drought turned streets into rivers that swept away cars and nearly some pedestrians in towns along Spain's Mediterranean coast.

Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit at the wrong time, they can devastate a region’s agriculture.

A church was underwater since the 1960 as the government of Catalonia created the Sau Reservoir on the site of the former town. 

As rains failed, Tunisian farmers watched their crops wither this spring, harvesting early to salvage some as animal feed and piling costs on a state struggling to afford wheat imports with bakeries running out of bread.

The 2.4bn raised was less than the $7bn the UN says is needed to provide help to millions at risk in the region.

California regulators say the state is unlikely to run short of electricity this summer, thanks to new power sources and a wet winter that filled reservoirs to restart hydroelectric power plants shuttered during the drought