Drought News

A country that has claimed the world's biggest oil reserves and is home to its fourth-mightiest river, the Orinoco, has recently been forced to ration both water and electricity.

The October 2009 average temperature for the contiguous United States was the third coolest on record for that month according to NOAAa s State of the Climate report issued today.

Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, had only months to live when he received a visit from an old friend, Rob Fraley, chief of technology for Monsanto Co.

SAN ANTONIO a ' The citya TMs water utility says the six-month-old water restrictions have now ended.

DHAKA: Bangladesh will receive a portion of $20 billion fund pledged by G-8 countries for global food security, said a US delegation yesterday.

South Korea started work Tuesday on a massive construction project to overhaul the country's four major rivers, amid claims it is a waste of taxpayer money and may harm the environment.

SYDNEY: Drinking untreated rainwater is safe for your health, according to an Australian study.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

Increased droughts, floods and storms will hit China's Yangtze River Basin over the next few decades, the result of rising temperatures globally, according to a report released Tuesday.

Thousands of Texas farmers and ranchers whoa ve been seeking federal drought relief since September are still waiting for their checks.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said independent scientists will explore alternative ways to protect a native fish species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that could allow more water to California's farm belt.

The Army Corps of Engineers says the reservoirs on the Missouri River system have nearly recovered from a decade of drought.

With the drought conditions of the past couple of years washed away by above average rainfall this summer and autumn, the wildfire season has begun in Tennessee.

Governor Deval Patrick announced a truce yesterday with environmental groups in a battle over how to protect the state's 11,000 miles of rivers and streams from being drawn down too low by mounting development pressures.

A plague of kangaroos has descended on the outback Queensland town of Thargomindah in search of food and water due to the drought.

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The government today exuded confidence that agriculture sector growth rate will remain positive this fiscal despite the adverse impact of drought and floods on the crops.

The struggling economy should bring commercial construction to a virtual standstill around Las Vegas next year, according to a Las Vegas research firm.

India may not achieve its growth target of nine per cent during the 11th Five Year Plan period as the economic slowdown and drought would likely take their toll, a senior Planning Commission member said.

Green groups and activists for the developing world on Thursday accused rich nations of tiptoeing away from vows to seal a binding, far-reaching UN treaty on climate change in Copenhagen next month.