The Latest Breaking News from Drought

Global warming made drought conditions that gripped much of the Northern Hemisphere 20 times more likely, study finds.

Widespread drought that dried up large parts of Europe, the United States and China this past summer was made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study

Record northern hemisphere drought in 2022 hit crops and power stations, worsening food and energy crises

Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts…