The world is facing unprecedented levels of drought. In the U.S., nearly half the mainland is currently afflicted, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. The situation is ...

A warmer world causes extreme drought and rain. ‘Indisputable’ new research proves it. Intense drought and heavy rainfall events have occurred more often in the last eight years than the ...

Iowa's drought conditions have been improving over the last several weeks as spring showers bring moisture back to the soil. The U.S. Drought Monitor's weekly map tracks the progress as drought ...

The world's largest rainforest protects us from ... As the map below shows, drought hit almost all ... There is concern that if climate change and deforestation continue at their current ...

In Paraguay, the world’s fourth-largest soybean exporter, the situation is even more dramatic. Paraguay’s soybean harvest could fall by as much as 50%, to some 165 million bushels in what ...

As the map below shows, drought hit almost all of the Amazon basin. This scale - and intensity - makes it different to previous droughts, Dr Clarke told BBC News. And if warming continues, such ...