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Drought
Three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has lost “resilience” since 2003 – making it more vulnerable to extreme events such as droughts – acc... Read More
At least 40% of the European Union’s agricultural imports will be “highly vulnerable” to drought by 2050, new research finds. The paper, pub... Read More
Update on 09/03/2022: This paper has been retracted by the authors after an error was discovered in their approach, which “alter[ed] some results... Read More
Economic damages from droughts in the EU and UK could rise by one third by the end of the century, new research finds – even if warming is limited ... Read More
Lesotho is one of the least developed countries in southern Africa and has a precarious food security balance. Almost all of its main staple food of ... Read More
In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, h... Read More
Climate change has driven an “alarming” increase in the number of years with both heatwaves and droughts across the US over the past five decades... Read More
Human-caused climate change has “intensified” patterns of extreme rainfall and drought across the globe, a new study finds. There is a detecta... Read More
Over the past decade, a compelling body of evidence has linked a range of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change. This area o... Read More
Europe’s extreme 2018 summer drought was worsened by an unusually warm and sunny spring in the same year, a new study finds. Sunny weather in th... Read More
The number of people exposed to water stress could double by 2050 if efforts are not made to keep global warming below 2C above pre-industrial levels... Read More
