The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has for the first time in three months, delivered life-saving nutrition supplies for malnourished children in the remote region of Farafangana, ...

Drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period when the amount of available water is insufficient to meet our normal use. Drought is not simply low rainfall; if it was, much of inland Australia would ...

Australia is prone to drought partly because of its geography. Our continent spans the latitudes of the subtropical high pressure belt. This is an area of sinking, dry, stable air and usually clear ...

"Megadroughts are persistent, multi-year drought events that stand out as especially extreme in terms of severity, duration, or spatial extent when compared to other droughts of the last two thousand ...

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water. Researchers with the ...

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta: BJP candidate Rekha Gupta was sworn in as the Delhi Chief Minister on Thursday, February 20. Gupta beat ...

Virginia farmers will go another year without state aid to cover increasing costs of drought insurance after a Senate finance committee did not take up the legislation before crossover, or include ...

Don't take that rainfall for granted. A study has detailed that as the Earth's temperature rises, extreme droughts will become more severe, farther-reaching, and increasingly common. Research from the ...

A near-catastrophic drought in Cape Town, South Africa illustrates three general implications of climate change for publicly-provided utility services. First, to reduce aggregate water demand, the ...