Compound droughts suppress plant growth nearly four times more than single-drought events, threatening global carbon uptake.

Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend to dominate headlines with dramatic images of wrecked homes and submerged towns, droughts are often overlooked by media, governments and ...

Climate change is reshaping the global water cycle, disrupting rainfall patterns and putting growing pressure on cities and ecosystems. Some regions are grappling with heavier rainfall and flooding, ...

San Antonio Water System (SAWS) is investing in a diverse water portfolio to help the city survive future droughts while ...

"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 ...

A Caltech study reveals droughts can heighten antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria, posing widespread risks for public ...

More than 13,000 droughts spanning years have overwhelmed our planet across nearly four decades. These severe droughts are becoming hotter, longer and more devastating as our planet’s global ...

While droughts are primarily linked to climatic conditions, socio-economic factors, such as social vulnerability to drought, significantly influence the impact of drought events. In many vulnerable ...

A powerful El Niño in 1997 killed at least 30,000 people and caused an estimated $100 billion in damage worldwide ...

Kenya and Uganda have significantly increased their climate-related budget allocations in the 2026/27 financial year, ...