European State of the Climate Report 2024
<p>Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe. Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least
Drought
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Telangana prepares to meet water crisis, borewells to be dug up in state
Hyderabad: With a water crisis looming large over Telangana State, the government has taken up a summer contingency plan to ensure drinking water to nine districts, especially where the groundwater levels
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Characterizing the water balance of the Sooke Reservoir, British Columbia over the last century
Infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs are critical water-supply features in several regions of the world. However, ongoing population growth, increased demand and climate variability/change necessitate
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Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia
In 2005 and 2010 the Amazon basin experienced two strong droughts, driven by shifts in the tropical hydrological regime possibly associated with global climate change, as predicted by some global models.
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Slick idea proposed to stretch water supplies
In the southwestern United States, where years of drought are leading water managers to consider drastic water-provision measures such as desalination and cloud seeding, entrepreneurs have suggested reviving
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Farmers’ suicide cases rise 26 percent to 1,109 in 2014
The number of suicide cases by farmers due to agrarian reasons have increased by 26 percent to 1,109 in 2014, with majority of deaths reported from Maharashtra, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. Out
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Assessing the economic impacts of drought from the perspective of profit loss rate: a case study of the sugar industry in China
<p>Natural disasters have enormous impacts on human society, especially on the development of the economy. To support decision making in mitigation and adaption to natural disasters, assessment of economic
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Agrochemical control of plant water use using engineered abscisic acid receptors
Rising temperatures and lessening fresh water supplies are threatening agricultural productivity and have motivated efforts to improve plant water use and drought tolerance. During water deficit, plants
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Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system
The world food crisis in 2008 highlighted the susceptibility of the global food system to price shocks. Here we use annual staple food production and trade data from 1992–2009 to analyse the changing properties
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Reservoir hogs
COULD São Paulo run out of water? The idea of South America’s biggest metropolis, home to 20m people, lacking something so basic seems fanciful. Yet shortages this year have forced schools to suspend classes
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Strategy planned to end water shortage in drought-hit Thar
KARACHI: In the wake of below average rainfall in Thar in recent years, the Sindh government has planned a series of water, food and livestock projects under a strategy to end water shortfall in the drought-hit