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The largest lake in the Middle East, Lake Urmia, has been reduced into a salt flat after successive droughts and serves agricultural purposes. Read more here.

Rivers in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to their lowest levels in over a century on Monday as a record drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem.

Mississippi River water levels are plummeting to an all-time low this week at Memphis in the wake of a sweltering summer and ongoing drought – setting a record for the

PARIS (AFP) – Natural and man-made disasters have caused USD3.8 trillion in crop and livestock loses over 30 years, the United Nations’s (UN)Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said yesterday. Floods, droughts, insect infestations, storms, disease and war have caused about USD123 billion per year in lost food production between 1991 and 2021, the equivalent of […]

A powerful storm will traverse nearly 1,500 miles of the US through the weekend and unload snow, severe thunderstorms and flooding rain along its path, culminating in the eighth consecutive dreary weekend in parts of the Northeast.

The findings, published in Environmental Research Letters, shows that stronger sectoral water use responses are found for heat waves compared to impacts during droughts.

Soybeans add $124 billion to the U.S. economy, but the U.S. lost soy market dominance to Brazil in 2018 due to reliance on a single export custome: China.

Mississippi River water levels are plummeting to an all-time low this week at Memphis in the wake of a sweltering summer and ongoing drought – setting a record for the second consecutive year, new data shows.

El Nino is here to stay — and that's bad news for cocoa crops which are highly sensitive to weather changes. 

A floating village now lies stranded on a lakebed in Brazil’s Amazon as severe drought leaves communities struggling to access food, fresh water and fuel.