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New Research Could Redeem a Controversial Weather Modification Technique

New techniques could make cloud seeding more effective and relieve climate change-induced droughts.

Inverse

El Niño is likely returning, bringing danger for California and the world. ‘We need to be prepared’

LOS ANGELES — It’s Earth’s original disrupter — a recurring climate pattern so powerful that it can drive global average temperature to record highs, and generate both cliff-crumbling storms and crop-destroying droughts across the planet.

Los Angeles Times

F1 donates €1 million to Emilia-Romagna flood relief effort

The death toll following the floods that hit north-eastern Italy on Tuesday and Wednesday, exacerbated by drought in the region since 2022, has now reached 13 people, while an estimated 20,000 have been left homeless.

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F1 donates €1million and Imola event food to Emilia-Romagna flooding relief effort

Autosport

Loropetalum care and growing guide – expert tips for these flowering evergreens

With their stunning spring flowers and striking foliage, drought-tolerant loropetalums are a worthy addition to your yard

Homes & Gardens

Factbox-Parametric insurance policies help cushion climate impacts

The damage wrought by climate change has spurred countries and communities across the developing world to look at using so-called 'parametric' insurance to help cushion the financial blow.

Reuters

Weather tracker: Italy’s floods exacerbated by months of drought

Torrential rain submerged the dried-out landscape of the Emilia-Romagna region, forcing thousands to evacuate

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The devastating impact of drought on mothers and children in Somalia

Exclusive: Powerful series illustrates devastating impact of crisis ahead of World Hunger Day

The Independent UK

Stunted wheat crops are turning blue in drought-ravaged Kansas

It’s so dry in Kansas that wheat plants are turning blue.

Tribune News Service

Exceptional weather becomes the new norm in exposed Italy

Storms, avalanches, floods and drought have slammed Italy over the past year, killing dozens of people, as once exceptional disasters become a regular part of life, leaving the government scrambling to find answers.

Reuters

El Niño and La Niña have become more extreme and frequent because of climate change, study finds

CSIRO has found greenhouse gas emissions have likely been making El Niño and La Niña events more frequent and extreme since the 1960s. Up until now little was known about the role it played.

ABC News

G7 nations are urged to act NOW to help end drought crisis in East Africa

The call from Oxfam comes just weeks after the Daily Mirror highlighted the horrific 'forgotten famine' that is ravaging the region

Daily Mirror

Almost 250,000 flee floods in Somali city that 'became like an ocean'

Floods have caused almost a quarter of a million people to flee their homes after the Shabelle river in central Somalia broke its banks and submerged the town of Beledweyne, even as the country faces its most severe drought in four decades, according to the government.

Reuters

Rainfall improves France's groundwater levels, but many areas still in red

Europe is monitoring its groundwater levels, hoping to avert acute shortages over the summer and mitigate a crisis in some of the driest areas. FRANCE 24's Science reporter Shirli Sitbon looks at the situation in France, where it has rained in some regions in recent weeks, but not everywhere. Many…

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Evening Standard

Global warming set to break key 1.5°C limit by 2027

World likely to break key temperature limit for the first time over the next few years, scientists predict

Daily Mirror

El Niño scorching heatwave threatens severe floods and drought as people urged 'prepare'

El Nino is a global weather event that can dictate the climate for the years to come, and this summer could see its return. The warmer Pacific Ocean could lead to widespread heatwaves

Daily Mirror

Rory McIlroy makes LIV Golf U-turn as he bids to end major drought at US PGA

Rory McIlroy is looking to bounce back from his disastrous US Masters in April, where he missed the cut despite arriving at Augusta as the pre-tournament favourite

PC Gamer

After a week-long race, Team Liquid secures world's first completion of WoW's Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible raid

Liquid ended a three-year drought since its last world's first in 2020.

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Emotional Jason Day breaks five-year PGA Tour drought

Australian golfer Jason Day has closed with a stellar round of 62 to end a five-year PGA Tour title drought at the AT&T Byron Nelson Championship in Texas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Jason Day breaks five-year winless drought, wins 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson

It has been five years since Jason Day won on the PGA Tour, but his winless drought is over.

Daily Mirror

Rory McIlroy bidding to end major drought at his "second home" in PGA Championship

British star Rory McIlroy has gone nine years without winning one of golf's Major and is hoping to finally end that drought in the US PGA, which gets underway this week

France 24

‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is running out of water

Spain is running out of water. After a long and painful drought, the country has been hit by an unusually early heat wave, evaporating even more of the "blue gold" it still has left in its reservoirs. While farmers fear for their survival, environmentalists say it is time for “Europe’s…

France 24

'Without water, we are nothing!': Spain's crippling drought reignites tensions over Tagus river

An early scorching heatwave across Spain has worsened the impact of the country's long-term drought, causing unprecedented damage to the country's crops. As farmers grow desperate for irrigation, the government's plan to limit the rerouting of water from the nation's longest river – the Tagus – for agricultural purposes lies…

The Conversation

Drought recedes in Britain after a wet spring – but much of Europe is parched

Be careful what you wish for. Britain’s seesaw rainfall patterns that began last winter have continued, with an on-off pattern of dry and then wet months for many areas.

ABC News

Nyngan emergency bore projects in limbo as government fails to commit further funding

A mayor in western New South Wales says his town is "in limbo" after the budget for a water security project blew out by $4.7 million.

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