Worst Drought News Today

Tourists face swimming pool closures in Barcelona in the coming weeks as Catalonia confronts its “worst drought ever”.

The world's largest rainforest protects us from climate change but deforestation has left it vulnerable.

The effects of global heat among populations in Africa, especially in Madagascar, has been unrecorded. Read more here.

The most significant rainfall in months will bring drought relief to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

Human faces sculpted into stone up to 2,000 years ago have appeared on a rocky outcropping along the Amazon River since water levels dropped to record lows in the region's worst drought in more than a century. Some rock carvings had been sighted before but now there is a greater variety that will help researchers establish their origins, archaeologist Jaime de Santana Oliveira said on Monday. The rocky point is called Ponto das Lajes on the north shore of the Amazon near where the Rio Neg...

AIR QUALITY ISSUES to persist at least through Thursday with virtually no prospect of rain through Saturday—but building weekend heat and an influx of humid air Sunday could produce t-storms Sunday —And with a jet stream in the area, ingredients for some healthy/potentially severe t-storms coming together Sunday—this plus a review of rainfall projections off […]

Authorities seek to preserve business with lowest rainfall since waterway opened in 1914

It has been unusually hot and dry this spring in Michigan with many lawns already brown and crunchy but when was it the hottest and driest in the state's history?

It has been unusually hot and dry this spring in Michigan with many lawns already brown and crunchy but when was it the hottest and driest in the state's history?

It has been unusually hot and dry this spring in Michigan with many lawns already brown and crunchy but when was it the hottest and driest in the state's history?