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Droughts, floods, wildfires: 2024 natural disasters in pictures
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Droughts, floods, wildfires: 2024 natural disasters in pictures

Al Jazeera  

People worldwide have faced an array of climate emergencies, ranging from prolonged droughts and wildfires to extreme rainfall and devastating floods, in 2024. Southeast Asia and South China experienced the destructive force of Typhoon Yagi, a severe tropical storm that caused the most devastation in Vietnam, resulting in 325 deaths, 24 people reported missing, and damage to more than 320,000 …

The American West’s last quarter-century ranks as the driest in 1,200 years, research shows
5 months, 1 week ago

The American West’s last quarter-century ranks as the driest in 1,200 years, research shows

LA Times  

Three years ago, climate researchers shocked drought-weary Californians when they revealed that the American West was experiencing its driest 22-year period in 1,200 years, and that this severe megadrought was being intensified by global warming. Williams said his latest review of data through June shows that the last 25 years, when compared with the late 1500s, have been “ever so …

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Warming climate intensifies flash droughts worldwide
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Warming climate intensifies flash droughts worldwide

The Hindu  

Sudden, severe dry spells known as flash droughts are rising in intensity around the world, with a notable exception in mountainous Central Asia, where flash drought extent is shrinking, according to new research. Many parts of the world have witnessed flash droughts extending over larger areas, for a longer time, with faster onset speed. South America, particularly southern Brazil and …

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Maui’s fire became deadly fast. Climate change, flash drought, invasive grass and more fueled it
1 year, 5 months ago

Maui’s fire became deadly fast. Climate change, flash drought, invasive grass and more fueled it

Associated Press  

Hawaii went from lush to bone dry and thus more fire-prone in a matter of just a few weeks — a key factor in a dangerous mix of conditions appear to have combined to make the wildfires blazing a path of destruction in Hawaii particularly damaging. “If you have all of those conditions at the same time, it’s often what …

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As Earth warms, more 'flash droughts' will suck soil and plants dry
1 year, 8 months ago

As Earth warms, more 'flash droughts' will suck soil and plants dry

The Hindu  

Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found. Swain called the issue “very relevant in a warming climate.” The term flash drought was coined around 2000 but it really took off in 2012, when a $30 billion sudden drought struck the central United States, …

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Rapid droughts coming on faster over majority of world. Will it impact India?
1 year, 8 months ago

Rapid droughts coming on faster over majority of world. Will it impact India?

Hindustan Times  

Rapid onsets of drought, also called flash droughts, have been occurring frequently with greater speed in many parts of the world as a result of climate change, according to a new study. The study, which was published in Science, quoted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Extreme Events data and said a significant transition towards flash droughts …

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As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry
1 year, 8 months ago

As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry

Associated Press  

Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found. “For the 2012 drought, actually the drought just developed in a very severe condition just within a month.” Most of China’s Yangtze River basin last summer was struck by a flash drought that developed within only …

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Droughts, Wet Events Made More Frequent, Intense by Global Warming: NASA-led Study
1 year, 9 months ago

Droughts, Wet Events Made More Frequent, Intense by Global Warming: NASA-led Study

News 18  

Major droughts and pluvials – periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on land – have indeed been occurring more often, confirmed a new National Aeronautics and Space Administration-led study. Two NASA, US, scientists examined 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites to identify extreme wet and dry events, the study published in the journal Nature …

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Climate change made this summer’s droughts around the world 20 times more likely, study finds
2 years, 3 months ago

Climate change made this summer’s droughts around the world 20 times more likely, study finds

LA Times  

The reservoir in Yesa, about 35 miles from Pamplona in northern Spain, was badly affected by drought during the summer. Droughts that struck three continents this summer — drying out large parts of Europe, the United States and China — were made 20 times more likely by climate change, according to a new study. Researchers from World Weather Attribution, a …

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How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse
2 years, 4 months ago

How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse

Wired  

On Wednesday, August 17, Hannah Cloke—a hydrologist at the University of Reading—was sitting in her home office when the rain started coming down. Much of southern England had been baked bone dry during successive heat waves and the worst period of drought in almost 50 years—satellite images showed the country’s green and pleasant land turned a sickly yellow. “When we …

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Wetlands ‘must be restored on enormous scale’ to cope with more droughts
2 years, 5 months ago

Wetlands ‘must be restored on enormous scale’ to cope with more droughts

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Every year we get to this perilous position and at the last possible moment, when the rivers are at …

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EU warns of dire climate season ahead with droughts, fires
2 years, 6 months ago

EU warns of dire climate season ahead with droughts, fires

India Today  

The European Union’s executive warned on Thursday that the continent is facing one of its toughest years when it comes to natural disasters like droughts and wildfires because of increasing climate change. With extremely dry weather hitting several Mediterranean nations, EU Commissioner Maro efovi told legislators on Thursday that “the present drought in Europe could become the worst ever.” Fires …

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EU warns of dire climate season ahead with droughts, fires
2 years, 6 months ago

EU warns of dire climate season ahead with droughts, fires

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s executive warned on Thursday that the continent is facing one of its toughest years when it comes to natural disasters like droughts and wildfires because of increasing climate change. With extremely dry weather hitting several Mediterranean nations, EU Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič told legislators on Thursday that “the present drought in Europe could become the worst …

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Iconic Iran River Threatened by Droughts, Diversions
2 years, 7 months ago

Iconic Iran River Threatened by Droughts, Diversions

News 18  

The famed river bridges of the Iranian city of Isfahan are a beloved tourist draw — but much of the time their stone arches span just sand and rocks, not water. Drought and upstream water diversions have seen the Zayandeh Rood, “fertile river” in Persian, run dry since 2000, with only rare exceptions. “When the water of Zayandeh Rood flows, …

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Climate crisis: European summer droughts since 2015 ‘far more severe’ than anything over past 2,000 years, scientists warn
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate crisis: European summer droughts since 2015 ‘far more severe’ than anything over past 2,000 years, scientists warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The study’s lead author, Professor Ulf Büntgen from Cambridge’s Department of Geography, who is also affiliated with the CzechGlobe …

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India’s Longest Drought: 41-month-long Dry Spell From 2015-18 Was Longest in 150 years, Finds Study
5 years, 2 months ago

India’s Longest Drought: 41-month-long Dry Spell From 2015-18 Was Longest in 150 years, Finds Study

News 18  

As the dispute over their ancestral property was growing more acrimonious by the day, 40-year-old farmer Murat Singh Yadav and his brother Charan Singh decided a partition was the only way to tamp down the discord. And, although not the deadliest, it had a “remarkable impact on reservoir and groundwater storage” suggesting that such long-term droughts could impact “water security …

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Drought in a desert: why has drought hit the Maldharis so hard this year?
5 years, 8 months ago

Drought in a desert: why has drought hit the Maldharis so hard this year?

The Hindu  

Do you remember how the monsoon began last year, ben?” asked Haji bhai of Hodka village in the heart of the Banni grasslands in the Rann of Kutch. Prolonged dry spells, even drought, are part of the Banni’s meteorological life-cycle; then the rains come and the grassland, which supports nilgai, chinkara, foxes, spiny tailed lizard, the desert cat and the …

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Normally wet Netherlands now forced to invest in fighting droughts
5 years, 9 months ago

Normally wet Netherlands now forced to invest in fighting droughts

NL Times  

While perhaps more commonly known for floods than droughts, The Netherlands is allocating seven million euros to combat excessively dry seasons in the country. The IJsselmeer, which provides the country with a third of its drinking water and potable water for agriculture, will be kept at its highest possible level by the beginning of the summer so if this year …

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Natural climate loads the dice that turns California's droughts, wildfires ugly
6 years ago

Natural climate loads the dice that turns California's droughts, wildfires ugly

Firstpost  

Human vulnerability to climate change can have a lot to do with where people choose to settle. A spherical Earth rotating on its axis from west to east with the current configuration of continents can only produce a dry climate over California. The Kuroshio in the east along the Asian coasts carries warm waters north while cold water flows south …

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They survive droughts, they eat trees — South Africa’s goats are helping farmers weather climate change
6 years ago

They survive droughts, they eat trees — South Africa’s goats are helping farmers weather climate change

LA Times  

Mvezelwa Mhlabunzima holds one of his goats as it is vaccinated on his farm in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. Veld goats, native to South Africa, aren’t worth as much as cattle per head, but they fare better in long periods of dry, unforgiving weather, and their populations recover faster. “It’s completely unfair.” Thorny acacia trees are impinging on grasslands in …

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