CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley - Historic drought drying up Texas town After 31 straight weeks of drought nearly 60 percent of Texas is bone dry. Anna Werner visited the town of Spicewood Beach where the situation is more desperate than anywhere...

After 31 straight weeks of drought nearly 60 percent of Texas is bone dry. Anna Werner visited the town of Spicewood Beach where the situation is more desperate than anywhere else in the state.

U.S. Drought Monitor reclassified cities as first metropolitan Texas area out of drought; Water restrictions expected to be eased

IRIN (Nairobi)-Cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as well as domestic violence, are increasing in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland, with social wor...

Research shows northern forests in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are drying up and shrinking from drought caused by climate change, while the eastern boreal forest is holding its own.

8,000-gallon water delivery helps see Spicewood through as wells run nearly dry

25.11.2011 - 04:04:48 - Drought event happened in Middle-America / Mexico. [Event details updated!]

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Jan 31, 2012; 10:38 AM ET The same storm bringing snow to part of the Plains and severe weather to part of the South Central states will bring more drenching rain to part of Texas, Oklahoma and other...

The drought ravaging Texas has done what the Dust Bowl could not: forced ranchers to ship cattle more than 600 miles north to Nebraska.

Needs remain huge despite improvements in malnutrition rates

New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA show that for the 35th year in a row, the globe was warmer than average during 2011, and about the 10th-warmest year on record since 1880. Officials said warming was hindered ...

“Needless haemorrhage of human lives is an outrage” says former U.N. emergency aid chief

Drought is a frequent visitor in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology describes the typical rainfall over much of the continent as “not only low, but highly erratic.” Over the last decade, drought has dominated Australian weather. Betwee...

Mexico mobilises aid for Tarahumara indigenous communities suffering a food crisis amid a drought in the north of the country.

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Masoud Popalzai/IRIN Heavy snow and avalanches often inflict human loss and property damages in winter in Afghanistan KABUL, 17 January 2012 (IRIN) - Avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan have cut off tens - if not hundre...

A lingering drought has caused a severe water shortage in Jiangxi Province.

Rising, warming and increasingly acidic seas threaten the very survival of Pacific island countries. The retreat of glaciers and snowfields in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau jeopardize these "water towers" on which 1 billion Asians depend for flows ...

The National Weather Service has officially declared last year as the driest on record in Texas and the second hottest. Meteorologists predict the situation won't improve much this year.

Weather 2011: Going to extremesMinneapolis Star TribuneWeather memories tend to fade quickly. But two events make 2011 stand out: the May tornado that sliced through the heart of the metro area and the lightning-sparked, drought-driven September Pagami...

The surface area of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, has shrunk to less than 200 square km, the Jiangxi provincial hydrographic bureau said Wednesday. • Drought hits Xiangjiang River in C. China

La Niña, the weather phenomenon widely blamed for withering drought in the southwestern United States and South America, will last into the Northern Hemisphere spring of 2012, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday.

South East Water has asked homeowners to take short showers instead of baths over the Christmas period after issuing a drought order. Residents in... Read more: Drought, Uk Christmas, Uk News, ...

Rapid rise in wildfires in large parts of Canada? Public release date: 16-Dec-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Tilo Arnholdpresse@ufz.de49-341-235-1635Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Ecologists show for the first time threshold va...

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Nov 11, 2011; 1:54 PM ET A storm affecting part of California and northwestern Mexico with rain this weekend may deliver another opportunity for rain to parts of Texas next week. While it is too ear...

UA scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought Public release date: 4-Nov-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Daniel Stoltestolte@email.arizona.edu520-626-4402University of Arizona A new study at the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tre...

PRINT EMAIL Somaliland flag HARGEISA, 3 October 2011 (IRIN) - A humanitarian delegation from the Republic of Somaliland donated relief aid for 9,000 drought-displaced families in the Somalia capital, Mogadishu, during a visit on 30 Septembe...

PRINT EMAIL Scarce resources... ISIOLO/MARSABIT, 13 September 2011 (IRIN) - Pastoralists in the drought-hit northern and eastern part of Kenya are often caught up in conflict over resources as well as movements of livestock in search of wat...

(Click on images for larger view.) Jewel-like green against the desert of central Asia, the Aral Sea has a long history of change. Over thousands of years, the lake has filled and dried, its fate linked to the flow of the rivers that feed it, par...

Texas has warmest summer on record of any state September 8, 2011 Each dot represents a day where temperatures met orexceeded 100 degrees. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) The blistering heat experienced by the nation during August, as well as the J...

Wildfires that have destroyed more than a thousand homes and threaten thousands more continue to rage in central Texas. Meteorologists point out that drought and an influx of wind from Tropical Storm Lee have fanned the flames and fueled the rash of ...