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Aug 22, 2024 · Drought Parches Mexico. Dry weather is putting extra strain on the systems that deliver water to Mexico City. One of the driest growing seasons in decades has decimated crops and left millions hungry. In September, low water levels made it more challenging to ship goods down the river and allowed a wedge of saltwater to move upstream.
Mar 20, 2019 · February 2019 PNG. February 21 - 28, 2019 PNG. There is never a good time for drought, but in southern Africa, overly dry conditions hit at a particularly vulnerable time—just after planting for the 2018-2019 maize (corn) season. According to ReliefWeb, about 10.8 million people in southern Africa faced severe food insecurity at the end of 2018.
Nov 26, 2014 · November 18, 2014. November 18, 2014 PNG. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, 11 of the past 14 years have been drought years in the American Southwest. The biggest headlines this year—and the worst levels of drought—can be found in California, but most of the region has been suffering from a persistent lack of rain and snow.
Apr 30, 2024 · The river winds more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) until it joins the Zambezi River at Zambia’s border with Zimbabwe. These satellite images show the Kafue’s west-to-east course through a flat, shallow floodplain, known as the Kafue Flats, in April 2024 (right) compared to April 2023 (left). In the 2023 image, green vegetation surrounds ...
Combined with water withdrawals that many believe are not sustainable, the drought has caused a dramatic drop in Lake Powell’s water level. Changes in the northeastern reaches of Lake Powell are documented in this series of natural-color images taken by the Landsat series of satellites between 1999 and 2021. The Colorado River flows in from ...
Jul 17, 2020 · Human influences on the lake’s inflow and outflow of water—landscape change, dams, and sand mining—have contributed to the lake’s decline in recent years. Water levels in winter 2019-2020 were made even worse by a drought, with little rainfall since July 2019. In June and July 2020, the pendulum swung to the other extreme.
Jun 12, 2018 · May 31 - June 7, 2018 JPEG. Much of the U.S. Southwest is heading into summer in the throes of a persistent and ever-more severe drought. Temperatures across much of the region in 2018 have been well above the norms, while rainfall and mountain snow have been well below—a recipe for struggling farmers and concerned forest fire managers.
Sep 10, 2024 · Drought has amplified fire activity across the continent, contributing to exceptionally high carbon emissions in Bolivia and Brazil. Published Sep 6, 2024 Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Fires
The abundance of snow in 2019 ended a severe drought that kept water flows into the river at 43 percent of normal in 2018. According to the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), which manages Lake Powell, “the total water year 2019 unregulated inflow to Lake Powell is projected to be 13.19 million acre-feet (122 percent of average).”.
Nov 25, 2017 · The Ups and Downs of Lake Chad. Today’s story is excerpted from our latest feature: The Rise and Fall of Africa’s Great Lake. Lake Chad sustains people, animals, fishing, irrigation, and economic activity in west-central Africa. But in the past half century, the once-great lake has lost most of its water and now spans less than a tenth of ...
