More than 13,000 droughts spanning years have overwhelmed our planet across nearly four decades. These severe droughts are becoming hotter, longer and more devastating as our planet’s global ...

A brutal combination of El Nino, global warming and the rise of the “flash drought” has experts fearing the summers to come.

Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend to dominate headlines with dramatic images of wrecked homes and submerged towns, droughts are often overlooked by media, governments and ...

Two back-to-back droughts in 2023 and 2024 caused the most severe decline in forest moisture and biomass (the total mass of living vegetation such as leaves, trunks and branches) in the Amazon since ...

Due to global warming, Swiss forests are now at a tipping point where summer droughts are overwhelming trees' tolerance and ...

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 2025 (IPS) - Water emergencies are deeply personal to us. Coming from Southeast Asia and southern Africa—two regions that struggle with water challenges—we have witnessed ...

Droughts are increasing due to global warming. The latest simulations predict that megadroughts could occur along the ...

When water is below normal levels in Latin America, air pollution spikes, and thousands of people die prematurely as a result, a new study finds. The study shows that the culprit of increased air ...

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory ...