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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…
Drought has caused irrecoverable corn crop losses in some areas of Argentina despite the El Niño weather phenomenon which usually triggers heavy rains in South America, an analyst at the country’s main grains exchange said. Argentina is the fourth…
A punishing heatwave is wreaking havoc in Zimbabwe, giving airline pilots a torrid time and literally sapping the energy out of a country that has seen its hydro-electric reservoir evaporate in the scorching heat. As the El Niño phenomenon…
Fierce weather hammered Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma over the long holiday weekend, claiming at least fourteen lives as freezing rain caused accidents and flood waters swept people from their cars. Eight people were killed in floods in North Texas,…
A NOAA satellite has captured three hurricanes — named Hurricane Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena — approaching the Pacific ocean, all at the same time. The image was recently released by NASA Three Category 4 hurricanes are approaching the Pacific Ocean,…
Cuba put its civil defense system on alert on Monday due to a yearlong drought that is forecast to worsen in the coming months and has already damaged agriculture and left more than a million people relying on trucked-in water.…
Typhoon Goni (left) and Typhoon Atsani (right) are forecast to reach super typhoon-status at the same time on Thursday. (JMA) Twin typhoons are spinning west across the Pacific Ocean — Goni and Atsani — poised to become the sixth and…
San Juan received only 1.6in (4cm) of rain in July, the fourth-driest month on record. Photograph: Alvin Baez/Reuters Other Caribbean islands also are struggling with a drought, including Jamaica, St Lucia and the Dominican Republic A deepening drought in…
