From Mexico City to the Mekong Delta, increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems ...

Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a ...

Cape Town floods displace thousands, devastate informal settlements. Aid is distributed, but recovery is slow amid blocked ...

Drought is a silent killer. It creeps in, drains resources and devastates lives in slow motion,” said Ibrahim Thiaw, ...

South Africa failed to take meaningful measures to improve protection of social and economic rights, which has been undermined by widespread unemployment, inequality, poverty, the government’s ...

How are South Africa's harsh winter conditions exposing the vulnerabilities of the poor? Explore the devastating impact of the recent Eastern Cape floods and the urgent need for action ...

Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) has emerged as a promising tool for remote sensing applications, e.g., soil moisture and drought monitoring. In this paper, soil moisture ...

The study shows that Earth’s climate has dramatically shifted before, triggering drought patterns like those seen in Cape ...

Fuelled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, some of the most widespread and damaging ...

The death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two weeks ago has risen ...

Authorities say the death toll from severe floods that inundated parts of South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape province two weeks ago has risen to 101, with a 12-month-old baby the youngest fatality.

Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food ...