Category Crops Alert

Devastating Hailstorm Wipes Out Crops In Las Cruces, New Mexico

A rainstorm quickly turned into a hailstorm in Las Cruces, New Mexico.   The storm didn’t last very long, but the damage stuck around the day after.   Farmers at the Fabian Garcia Research Institute for New Mexico State University…

Mega Flooding Has Killed At Least 64 And Displaced More Than 400,000 In Sri Lanka

Hundreds of small boats navigated deep floodwaters that have inundated thousands of homes in the Sri Lankan capital to deliver aid and rescue the elderly and sick from rooftops, as forecasters warned of more heavy rain.   The heavily-indebted Government…

Record 51C Temperature Recorded In India

A record temperature has been set in India, where the mercury rose to 51 degrees Celsius (123.8 Fahrenheit) in the north-western town of Phalodi.   The previous record of 50.6 Celsius had stood for 60 years.    That, too, was…

Massive Landslide Kills At Least 49, Destroys Several Homes In Rwanda, Africa

At least 49 people have been killed in landslides caused by floods in Rwanda, local authorities said.   The rains which hit Gakenke district in the country’s northern province, also destroyed about 300 homes.   Statistics show that of the…

Severe hailstorm causes widespread damage in China

Local governments in China issued emergency responses following a deluge of hailstones on Sunday.   Various towns in the northwestern Gansu Province and surrounding Tanchang County were affected in the 30-minute storm on Sunday afternoon, which caused widespread damage to…

55,000 cattle dead during past 6 months, due to drought throughout Colombia

“El Niño is a true rural catastrophe,” said Jose Felix Lafaurie, president of the Colombian Federation of Cattle (Fedegan) a week , while indicating that the animals have died of thirst and, therefore, the sector’s losses are more 850 billion.…

Apocalyptic Drought Strikes Haiti

Haiti’s third consecutive year of drought, exacerbated by the global El Niño weather phenomenon, has driven people deeper into poverty and hunger, and doubled the severely food-insecure population, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.   Some 3.6…

Severe drought intensifies food emergency in Ethiopia

Despite the well-coordinated response already under way to offset the impacts of an El Niño-induced drought in Ethiopia, the United Nations humanitarian wing has warned that the scale of the developing emergency exceeds resources and that more funding is urgently…