The total percentage of drought coverage across the U.S. is at its lowest since March 2020. This U.S. Drought Monitor week saw widespread improvement in drought-related conditions on the map across areas of the South, the Plains, the Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic, and the West.
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As El Niño and climate change bring drought to the northern Philippines, farmers say the value of local heirloom seeds shines through.
Farmers say these seeds, cultivated through generations, show greater resilience to drought and heat than commercial hybrid seeds promoted by the government.
A network of seed savers, spearheaded by rural women, is working to revitalize the traditional practices of saving seeds.
$800 needed to stay off the street
$200 to cover Car Insurance that already came out my account
We used pretty much all $800 that Mom gets monthly that would have been used for food to stay off the street to avoid dying in the toxic #ClimateChange heat of our state that's deeply in a #drought
The town of Catacocha, located in the south of Ecuador, is in a province known for being almost a desert: dry forest, barren soil and rains that only appear two months in the year.
A historian discovered the water collection system long ago used by Palta Indigenous people and persuaded locals in Catacocha to apply it.
This is the river Rhine in cologne. It's the biggest and longest river in Germany.
The drought shows us structures and things that are usually under the water.
A new study reveals that before northern Africa dried out, 5,500 years ago, its climate “flickered” between two stable climatic states before tipping permanently. This is the first time it’s been shown such flickering happened in Earth’s past. And it suggests that places with highly variable cycles of changing climate today may in some cases be headed for tipping points of their own.
Both #floods and #drought.
Pass my soapbox. In spite of certain badly-worded commentaries, this planet has no shortage of water. We have shortage of potable water and water for irrigation, and water being inconveniently placed. The first can be addressed by technologies old and new, if the political will were applied. The second makes me cross. Water is vital; petroleum is merely useful - so why do petroleum pipelines cross continents but we don't transport water? https://climate.copernicus.eu/precipitation-relative-humidity-and-soil-moisture-april-2024?utm_id=cb-april-24
As the #ClimateCrisis forces people to abandon their land in #Rajasthan, a new industry has sprung up in the desert state, with thousands of gaily decorated vans setting off to sell ice-cream across the country. #ClimateChange
In November 2023, one of the tragic casualties of severe heat exacerbated by the El Niño phenomenon was an elephant in Zimbabwe's largest animal reserve. Hwange National Park, boasting over 45,000 elephants, witnessed the deaths of over 100 of these majestic creatures due to dehydration.
Rufino Choque, a member of the Urus indigenous community, stands atop a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopo Lake. Once spanning 3,000 square kilometers, this body of water was declared vanished in 2015. (Oruro, Bolivia. December 2021)
Improvements occurred in parts of the Midwest, High Plains, Texas and Puerto Rico. Degradations occurred in parts of the Southeast Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota.
This year so far has brought a reprieve from drought in many areas. Most notably, five-category improvements occurred in Louisiana northeast into central Tennessee. Despite these improvements, Louisiana recorded 36 drought impacts—second only to Texas for first-quarter impacts. To help you keep up with drought impacts, the NDMC’s State Impacts tool has a new look and features.
Parched farms, cancelled classes: Extreme heat scorches South-East Asia
"Due to the unbearable heat, the [#Philippines'] Department of Education has allowed #schools to either hold remote lessons or cancel classes altogether.
The country is also in the process of shifting back to a June to March academic calendar, following complaints among students and teachers over holding classes during the peak summer season."