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ANKARA. KAZINFORM Droughts may affect more than three-quarters of the world’s population by 2050, the UN said Friday as World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed, Anadolu Agency reports.

So we know that this is going on. if you connect the dots between these crises, its pretty apocalyptic. but also in the ocean, which has absorbed about 90% of the excess heat that weve generated in the atmosphere, every year for the last six years has been the absolute record global ocean temperature. and it keeps going up, breaking records every year. so thats where most of the heat is stored. and it keeps reradiating into the atmosphere, causing these typhoons and super storms, droughts in one...

These are all realistic scenarios unless we get serious about it right now. we look at the southern border of the united states with thousands of people migrating to the border trying to get into the country right now, thats just a small percentage of whats going to happen 10 to 20 years from now with climate refugees trying to cross borders to a habitable world. >> and indeed some of those literally are climate refugees because of droughts and so on in their own country. i wish we had more time...

And it keeps breaking records every year. so thats where most of the heat is store and keep reradiating into the atmosphere causing these typhoons and super storms and droughts in some places and storms in another. >> when we talk about warning signs there have been decades of warning signs and warnings, and yet here we are. back in the 70s there were warnings from people like you. i mean, potentially how bleak are things, and whats the short to mid-term outlook? >> well, there certainly have be...

A culmination of unique events led to the recent extensive flooding in the Yellowstone region. Water quickly rose in an area that was in an extended drought, forcing officials to

Some diesel fuel from out of state. >> right. unfortunately, a lot of people dont take doo consideration not only the shortage of diesel and potentially the shortage of everything else is mother nature. you have droughts, you have rain you also are up against and you do not know what that will do and how it will affect it. hopefully we can get something under control here. when people hear a food shortage, its scary times to be living in. kyle and ryan, thanks for getting up early with us. >> th...

Further than that so generally speaking we cannot say, for example, whether this summer will be scorching hot in europe are not. it is not something we can do? what we can say, however is that, of course, again, coming back to climate change, with climate change and global warming becoming increasingly severe that will automatically make the likelihood of such heatwaves and the likelihood of such heatwaves and the associated impacts like droughts and forest fires and so on, all of these things w...

Involved people, not married yet, domestic partners, people convicted of misdemeanors involving domestic abuse dont have access to firearms. but that issue about the boyfriend loophole is proving to be incredibly problematic. theyre trying to define what constitutes a boyfriend. at what point can the persons weapon be taken away? do they have the right to petition to get it back? its raising major conditions on the hill that if they dont reach a final agreement on the details in the next few day...

Alerts. lets go to rene marsh for more. it is an aggressive goal for sure. what else is the president going to say? >> this is a critical meeting, there are 23 of the worlds largest economies are part of this meeting. and theyre all announcing these stronger climate targets, biden announcing these new initiatives to curb methane and those new clean energy technology investments. but this meeting is happening in the backdrop of climate change induced extreme weather that as you mentioned the majo...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The drought that a year ago had enveloped all of North Dakota has dissipated, according to this week's monitoring report. The U.S. Drought Monitor map shows no areas of the state are in any drought categories.