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Africa: Why the World Can’t Agree How to Tackle Drought
Delegates from 196 nations plus EU officials have met in Mongolia to discuss how best to tackle drought and desertification. Often overlooked by the larger and busier climate summits, this small UN desertification summit, known as Cop17, felt more important than ever. Yet countries still could not agree on what needs to be done. Negotiations…
Africa: GEF Proposes $140 Million Program to Strengthen Drought Resilience
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — For pastoralists in Arvaikheer — a village in Mongolia’s dry central plains — rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are replenished and whether families make it through another dry season. But as climate change makes rainfall increasingly unpredictable, even a wet season…
Africa: How Degradation and Drought Are Threatening the Land That Feeds Us
Desertification is not the spread of deserts. It is the slow degradation of fertile land – a process that now affects 40 percent of the Earth’s land surface and leaves around 100 million hectares of healthy land unproductive every year. As governments gather in Mongolia this week for the UN’s Cop17 desertification summit, scientists say…
Europe endures its fifth heat wave this summer, 50% of continent in a drought
Europe endures its fifth heat wave this summer, 50% of continent in a drought – CBS News Watch CBS News Europe has been sweating through its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures since May. Ramy Inocencio is in London with more.
East Africa Faces Intensifying Drought As La Niña Deepens Regional Weather Extremes
Addis Ababa — New climate assessments warn that severe drought conditions are tightening their grip on East Africa, driven by the ongoing La Niña phenomenon, even as southern parts of the continent brace for worsening floods. According to the latest Global Weather Hazards Summary (Dec 11-17, 2025), southern Somalia and eastern Kenya are experiencing the…
Iran begins cloud seeding to induce rain during worst drought in decades
Reuters Water levels in Tehran’s Amirkabir dam are at 8% of capacity, officials say Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country’s worst drought in decades. Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran’s official news agency Irna…
Africa: ‘Life Feels More Stable’ – in Zimbabwe, Red Cross Helps Farming Communities Cope With Prolonged Drought
Rising temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall have reshaped Zimbabwe’s climate, with droughts now striking every two to three years instead of once a decade. The result: 2.7 million rural Zimbabweans face recurrent food insecurity. As the global climate crisis accelerates, hitting the South earliest and hardest, humanitarian responses are evolving from short-term relief to long-term…
Africa: Ahmed El Moctar’s Golden Night – The Man Who Ended Mauritania’s Goal Drought in Style
When Mauritania needed a hero, Ahmed Mokhtar Ahmed stepped forward — and in one unforgettable evening at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, he became more than just a striker. He became the lifeline of the Mourabitounes’ CHAN 2024 campaign, ending a frustrating scoring drought, securing their first win, and walking away with the TotalEnergies Man of…
IPO market boost from Circle 500% surge, VCs say drought may be ending
Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world’s biggest stablecoins, and Circle Internet Group co-founder Sean Neville react as they ring the opening bell, on the day of the company’s IPO, in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSE For over three years, venture capital firms…