Drought News

Terming the Centre's announcement of a special package of Rs 7,266 crore for Bundelkhand as a 'delayed decision', the Uttar Pradesh government has said it will not benefit the local people.

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Cracked soil and dead cows are pictured at a ranch in Chaco, Paraguay on November 18.

Measures to deal with current drought conditions - and how they will affect Matagorda County rice farmers - will be considered by the Lower Colorado River Authority board of directors at its regular meeting in Austin Wednesday.

A team of US scientists has uncovered the complete genetic code of corn, a discovery that promises to speed development of higher yielding varieties of one of the world's most important food crops.

Cloud seeding once was seen similar to well divining, medicine shows and miracle healers.

The Hmoud family once prospered in this arid Palestinian farm village by cultivating banana and eggplant crops, earning enough to send a son abroad for medical school and to build a house with a showy staircase and a two-story window.

But drought has decimated the spring that is Auja's only agricultural water source, and fields once filled with palm trees are now empty. Village residents have been forced to find work in the greenhouses near Jewish settlements that are hooked up to Israeli water mains.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's plans for development of Bundelkhand today received the nod of the government which announced a special package of Rs 7,266 crore for development of the drought-hit region that spans across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.

Weather modification backfires in China? History of weather-tinkering in the USA October weather to hang on most of this week .

Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.

Women bear the brunt of drought, rising seas, melting glaciers and other effects of climate change but are mostly ignored in the debate over how to halt it, the United Nations Population Fund said on Wednesday.

As delegates at the World Summit on Food Security discuss urgent measures to counter the forward march of hunger, we must mobilise all world citizens - not just global leaders -to feed the more than one billion hungry people around the world.

If farmers want to cope with the changing climatic conditions especially droughts, they should adopt irrigation.

State environmental officials will consider a proposal this week to allow millions of gallons of treated sewage to be dumped into several popular central Texas lakes, angering some waterfront property owners, elected officials and environmentalists.

Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee due to crop losses from a combination of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.

Water charges must be introduced to protect drinking supplies in the face of climate change, the country's top engineers have warned.

DOI Abstract Meteorological drought in the Hadley Centre global climate model is assessed using the Palmer Drought Severity Index , a commonly used drought index.

With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts gathered Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water.

The Texas population continues to grow rapidly, and the state's water supply continues to shrink.