KISKUNMAJSA, Hungary — Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his…
Read more Hungary’s ‘water guardian’ farmers fight back against desertificationAuthorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country’s worst drought in decades. Known as cloud-seeding, the process was…
Read more Iran begins cloud seeding to induce rain amid historic droughtPORTLAND, Maine — Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have muted this year’s autumn colors, and sent leaves fluttering to the…
Read more Drought mutes fall leaf-peeping seasonCOGAT, Israel’s military agency, stated that the PA is responsible for supplying water in the West Bank. Israel transfers 90 million cubic meters annually, blaming shortages on Palestinian…
Read more Palestinians face severe water shortages in the West BankALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent western states and…
Read more Western states seek to end long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio GrandeMEXICO CITY — Hurricane Ernesto which made landfall on the tiny British Atlantic territory of Bermuda early Saturday was downgraded to a tropical storm by afternoon, according to…
Read more Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall on Bermuda as a Category 1 stormSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Ernesto strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday as it dropped torrential rain on Puerto Rico and left nearly half of all clients in…
Read more Ernesto becomes a hurricane after pummeling northeast Caribbean and knocking out power in the regionAGRIGENTO, Italy (AP) — Lakes are dry and fields are scorched by heat in Sicily, but water is still gushing copiously for tourists. After an almost totally rain-free…
Read more Sicilians deal so well with drought that tourists don’t notice. A record dry year could alter thatMEXICO CITY — Gliding above her neighborhood in a cable car on a recent morning, Sonia Estefanía Palacios Díaz scanned a sea of blue and black water tanks,…
Read more In Mexico City, women water harvesters help make up for drought and dicey public water systemMEXICO CITY — Gliding above her neighborhood in a cable car on a recent morning, Sonia Estefanía Palacios Díaz scanned a sea of blue and black water tanks,…
Read more In Mexico City, women water harvesters help make up for drought and dicey public water systemAUSTIN, Texas — Eleven people were hospitalized and seven smuggling suspects were arrested Thursday after authorities found more than two dozen migrants who had been driven from the…
Read more Texas sheriff says 7 suspects arrested, 11 migrants hospitalized after sting near San AntonioWASHINGTON — The climate phenomenon known as El Nino — and not climate change — was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama…
Read more Study says El Nino, not climate change, was key driver of low rainfall that snarled Panama CanalHARARE, Zimbabwe — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and…
Read more Rewind. Fast forward. African farmers are looking everywhere to navigate climate changeQUITO, Ecuador — QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador on Tuesday began to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather…
Read more Ecuador rations electricity as drought persists in the northern AndesMAKUENI, Kenya — On a dry riverbed one recent sunny morning, residents of Kasengela village toiled away mixing cement and sand to make concrete. The sound of their…
Read more To make water last year-round, Kenyans in dry regions are building sand dams on seasonal riversPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve Haiti‘s poor — a consequence of…
Read more Violence is battering Haiti’s fragile economy and causing food and water shortagesPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve Haiti‘s poor — a consequence of…
Read more Violence is battering Haiti’s fragile economy and causing food and water shortagesAt least 123 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile, leading its president to declare two days of national mourning. The devastation comes soon after Colombia…
Read more How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile’sMEXICO CITY — At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a…
Read more Other passengers support man who opened emergency exit and walked on plane’s wing in Mexico airportPANAMA CITY — A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most…
Read more Traffic through the Panama Canal is being slashed because of drought, disrupting global trade
