Drought News

Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa already has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty After working for many years for Professor Wangari Maathai , and then with the African Biodiversity Network , Kenyan ecologist Gathuru Mburu wanted to share his learnings with his own local community who ...

Nearly a decade after Enron Corp., the bankrupt energy broker, bragged about gouging millions of dollars from West Coast grandmothers, Snohomish County utility payers will finally get some payback - what amounts to 92 cents a person.

By Raymond Baguma UGANDA'S average temperature will increase by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next 20 years as a result of global warming, according to the State of the Uganda Population Report, released yesterday by finance minister Syda Bbumba.

While Californians worry about the three-year drought dragging on another season, researchers say climate change soon could create much longer dry spells - lasting decades or even centuries.

Pranab Mukherjee exhorted people to 'recognise' that there will be inflationary pressure in a growing economy and it was up to the govt to moderate it.

From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least.

Protracted drought has brought what has been described as a 'biblical' camel plague into the Docker River township in search of water, leaving residents cowering in their homes as they have smashed through water mains and invaded the airstrip.

The time of day matters to forest trees dealing with drought, according to a new paper produced by a research team led by Professor Malcolm Campbell, University of Toronto Scarborough's vice-principal for research and colleagues in the department of cell and systems biology at the St.

After a year marked by heavy spring and fall rains and a summer drought, the Small Business Administration says it will be offering businesses and non-profits in 10 rural parishes in Louisiana disaster loans.

By Ibrahim Mohamed Mogadishu - The UN's World Food Programme must immediately stop importing relief rations to Somalia, hardline rebels said on Wednesday, accusing the aid agency of devastating local agriculture.

Toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West have been found in endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced irrigation shutoffs for farmers.

A remote Australian outback town is under siege from thousands of feral camels hunting for water as drought continues to grip parts of the country.

The St. Landry Parish Council has asked the state to declare the parish a disaster area in regard to farming.

November 24, 2009 - 12:00 a.m. EST It's raincoats and umbrellas for these Clemson University students as they head to class earlier this month.

For people who practice rain-fed agriculture like most of us in Uganda, the rain season comes with its challenges.

ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov 24 - Activists from the U.S. and Colombia are targeting the World of Coca-Cola museum, located near its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, accusing the company of "union busting", paying its workers "poverty wages", and engaging in environmentally destructive practices.

Stubble creates a micro-climate that can reduce the effects of wind, frost and sun.

Lamb numbers are showing some signs of recovery, and agricultural economists say this spring's record lambing percentage increased numbers by 6.2%. Meat and Wool New Zealand's economic service says this year's lamb crop will be 28.9 million, up 1.7 million from the 51-year low experienced last spring.

While rain and snow have ended droughts across much of the U.S. this year, conditions have gotten worse in Arizona, further extending a dry streak that began in 1996.

For the second time in a month, part of the Miss-Lou has been declared a disaster.