Climate crisis: Drought causes mass elephant deaths in Zimbabwe game reserve
Drought conditions had earlier also prompted a mass-movement of elephants from Hwange into neighbouring Botswana in a search for water, food
Drought in the Amazon: A tragedy announced
The severe drought affecting the Amazon is producing a human and environmental tragedy in the region, with the marginalised suffering the most
Drought in the Amazon: Understanding the causes and the need for an immediate action plan to save the biome
Only with coordinated and decisive action will we be able to mitigate the impacts of drought in the Amazon and protect this unique ecosystem that …
Drought of equity
A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …
What the tourism sector can learn from Cape Town’s drought
The 2015-2018 drought, one of the longest and the worst to have affected Cape Town, affected tourism badly
UNCCD COP14: Experts stress the need to assess long-term drought impacts
World Bank, Water Global Practices release framework to assess benefits of proactive action vis-à-vis drought
Ecological drought: where not just humanity but ecosystems suffer
US scientists have defined a new type of drought brought about by climate change, one which increases the vulnerability of ecosystems
Can India forecast drought in the long term?
The country has a long experience of managing drought but it is time it evolved its long-term forecasting mechanism
Farmers suffer as states yet to declare drought
31% of the districts in India are struck by drought according to IMD but many states are yet to declare drought, leaving the already agonised …
Sikkim best prepared to tackle drought, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh the least
All four districts of the northeastern state are resilient to drought, but that’s not the case with any of the districts in Rajasthan and …
Maharashtra heads towards a drier drought
While last year, the state’s 14,679 villages were hit by drought, this time 20,000 villages are already facing drought-like conditions
India’s climate story: Floods to drought and back again
Several districts in the country have seen floods owing to heavy rainfall and immediately after been subjected to drought for there is deficit …
Centre washes its hands off drought relief by introducing new parameters
Thousands of villages in Maharashtra are water stressed but will not receive help from the Centre because they fall short of the new definition …
How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar
Our findings suggest that developing countries like Madagascar have something in common with western nations when it comes to laptop use, such as …
DROUGHT BUT WHY? How India can fight the scourge by abandoning drought relief
During 2014-2017 India was shaken by severe spells of drought that hit over 500 million people across geographical regions. Unlike in the past, …
Why are vanilla growers in Madagascar struggling to survive?
Farmers in Madagascar, world's largest vanilla-exporting country, live in poverty and constant fear of losing their crop to theft
Why is Karnataka protesting change in definition of drought?
New norms for declaring drought are too stringent to be practical and are indicative of Centre’s intention to pass on the financial burden …
It is not a drought
As they say, drought is a disaster one can see coming. Deficit monsoon creates situations for a drought. But it is not deficit monsoon, rather …
Drought unites people
1,300 drought-prone Maharashtra villages build watershed structures on their own to harvest every drop of rain this monsoon
Dry in the delta: Tamil Nadu drought
The region which recieves two monsoons a year is being crippled by a severe drought. Tamil Nadu with an average rainfall of 1000mm a year …
Karnataka pinning hopes on unseasonal rain to tide over drought, water crisis
The state is staring at a severe drought for second consecutive year with coastal Karnataka experiencing a shortfall in southwest and northeast …
Drought in Kenya puts livestock at risk; crop failure triggers fear of starvation
Kenya is prone to drought because only 20 per cent of the country receives adequate and regular rainfall
New drought in Ethiopia puts recovery at risk
A new drought is emerging in southern and southeastern pastoral areas of the country
El Niño effect: Even in drought-tolerant forests, seedlings more likely to die
Scientists study effects of drought, find mortality higher in evergreen forests than deciduous ones
Monsoon 2022: Why a drought wasn’t declared in 4 states with drought-like conditions
A report shows drought-like situation in over 700 blocks of 91 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar & West Bengal