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3 days ago · Drought is a lack of rain that causes water shortages, crop damage, and environmental problems. Learn about the four types of drought, how they affect different regions, and how they are measured and managed.
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6 hours ago · India is one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of wheat and rice. Research organizations here, like their counterparts around the world, have long worked to produce seeds that increase yields, withstand drought or resist plant diseases. It’s a growing need as a changing climate leads to more extreme and unpredictable weather.
6 days ago · As drought is projected to touch three out of four people globally by 2050, decision-makers and experts will reconvene in Geneva from 30 September to 2 October with a twin goal: taking stock of the progress made in the past ten years and transforming plans, policies and commitments into concrete actions that protect societies, economies and ecosystems from the impacts of drought.
1 day ago · This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle — droughts and pluvials — over a twenty-year period (2002-2023) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites. Dry events are shown as red spheres and wet events as blue spheres, with earlier years being shown as lighter shades and later years as darker shades. The volume of the sphere is proportional to the intensity of the event, a quantity measured in cubic kilometer months. A total of 1,138 extreme wet and dry events ...
Sep 6, 2024 · Drought is a human-made global emergency that affects all sectors and regions, not just agriculture. Learn how to shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to drought management, and why nature-based solutions are key to drought resilience.
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Sep 23, 2024 · Physical, or absolute, water scarcity is the result of a region’s demand outpacing the limited water resources found there. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, around 1.2 billion people live in areas of physical scarcity; many of these people live in arid or semi-arid regions.
Sep 24, 2024 · Sep. 5, 2024 — Drought is a widespread concern in the Western U.S., and water managers across the region are developing groundwater management plans to conserve the essential resource ...
