#drought

Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production and the yields ...

Water levels on the Rhine river are very low because of unusually hot and dry weather, preventing many vessels from navigating the critical European shipping route fully loaded. Flowing from ...

Corn plants near Paris are stunted and the soil of harvested wheat fields is bone dry, but on Eudes Coutte’s sorghum plot the leaves are green and the plants ...

Britain’s South East Water announced a temporary ban on the use of sprinklers and hosepipes in parts of the south of England, citing record breaking temperatures and the driest ...

A national action plan has been prepared which includes mapping of vulnerable areas and actions and measures to address desertification and keep Cyprus green, the department of the environment said ...

By Mert Ozkan Thousands of baby flamingos have died at Turkey’s Lake Tuz in the past two weeks from a drought that environmentalists said was the result of climate ...

Authorities expressed concern on Friday over the lack of rain so far this year, which will inevitably affect the water supply in coming months. The director of the water development ...