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 ...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Mohammad Popal/IRIN Food insecurity looks set to rise KABUL, 9 August 2011 (IRIN) - Ongoing drought in northern, northeastern and western Afghanistan is likely to push 1.5-2 million more people into food insecurity this au...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN Although the number of drought-displaced families reaching Mogadishu has dropped, the situation in the Afgoye corridor is deteriorating, aid officials say BAIDOA, 8 August 2011 (IRIN) - Humanitaria...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: UN Photo/Stuart Price A woman holds her malnourished baby as she queues for food at an IDP camp in Mogadishu MOGADISHU/NAIROBI/DADAAB, 4 August 2011 (IRIN) - Even as the UN announced that famine had spread to more areas in...

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN Livestock carcasses dot southern Borena zone of Oromiya region BORENA (OROMIYA REGION), 18 July 2011 (IRIN) - Last October, the elders in Borena zone of Oromiya region in southern Ethiopia predicted that the main rai...

The drought in Somalia has spread to areas previously not drought-prone, displacing thousands of families (file photo) NAIROBI, 11 July 2011 (IRIN) - Civil society groups are rallying together to help the vulnerable as the drought ravaging Som...

Drought has forced thousands of Somali families to migrate to urban areas (file photo) Photo: UNDP NAIROBI, 4 July 2011 (IRIN) - With 100 heads of cattle, Halima Omar's family were considered fairly well off in their community in Da'ara village in Soma...

Image: A tractor transports visitors to the Dead Sea through an area that was previously covered in water in Ein Gedi, Israel Ariel Schalit / AP EIN BOKEK, Israel — The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabl...

What a beautiful site after months of drought! Cause for celebration!! Images: Gawie (Click on images for larger view.)

First-of-its-kind fluorescence map offers a new view of the world’s land plants A first-of-a-kind global map of land plant fluorescence shows stronger photosynthetic activity in the Northern Hemisphere in July when light and temperature conditions w...

By Eric Leister, Meteorologist Jun 4, 2011; 12:53 PM ET "Aside from an isolated thunderstorm, no rainfall is expected..." Drought conditions remain extreme and exceptional, the highest levels of drought intensity, across portions of eastern New...

By Valerie Smock, AccuWeather.com Broadcaster Jun 2, 2011; 12:26 PM ET This is a look at the 2005 drought in the Amazon. (Courtesy: NASA) It is easy to see the result of a dry summer on your yard, but can you imagine how reduced rainfall can affe...

More Western winds for Punjab Turbat sizzles at 50°C again Pre-Monsoon activty in Karachi continues Chances of depression in the Arabian sea still persists   Pakistan Weather Background *A weak western disturbance would affect Northern Pakistan. *Heat wave to persist in parts of Balochistan and Sindh. *Tropical cyclone “Keila” may affect lower ...

Since the forecast of a possible cyclone in the Arabian sea emerged on May 23, there had been much talk about its possible track and intensity. Cyclones in the Arabian sea are rare and stronger ones are extremely rare but not unheard. A little disturbance in the Arabian sea sends chills ...