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The Global Rundown The Red Cross warns that drought is affecting more than 10 million people in North Korea. As pollution chokes India’s rivers, the “cursed” Chambal river runs clean. Mismanaged plastic waste causes up to 1 million deaths in the developing world each year, according to a report. Coffee yield in Tanzania tumbles due […]
The Global Rundown Extensive sand mining is devastating riverways across the globe, a UN report warns. A new interactive map details PFAS risks throughout the United States. Namibia declares a state of emergency due to drought. Rising water levels in the U.S. Great Lakes bring flooding and erosion. Communities without levees along the Mississippi River […]
The Global Rundown Drought hampers shipping in the Panama Canal as water levels fall. U.S. Democrats and President Donald Trump agree to spend $2 trillion on roads, water, and other infrastructure projects. Volunteers and military personnel work to protect homes as floodwaters swamp eastern Canada. Food insecurity looms for more than 2 million people in […]
More than 66 million Southeast Asians had their lives disrupted by drought in the past three decades.
The Imperial Irrigation District, an influential agency on the Colorado River, sued to halt a basinwide drought plan.
The Global Rundown California’s Imperial Irrigation District sues over its exclusion from the Colorado River drought contingency plan just as President Donald Trump signs off on it. Farmers suicides are on the rise in India’s drought-stricken Maharashtra state. States provide mixed feedback during a public comment period on revisions to the Water of the United […]
The Global Rundown The U.S. Congress approves the Colorado River drought contingency plan. Cyclone-hit Zimbabwe, simultaneously facing drought, asks for $613 million in aid. Heavy rain deluges Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaving at least three people dead. The central bank of Venezuela is partially shut down after two weeks without running water. Scientists work to […]
After years of drought, wet weather returned, in force, to Afghanistan this winter.
The Global Rundown The U.S. is almost entirely drought-free. A property owner in Queensland, Australia, receives a government settlement over PFAS contamination in his groundwater. The first cases of cholera are reported in cyclone-hit Mozambique. A new study finds water and sanitation access is improving in sub-Saharan Africa, despite an ever-growing slum population. Venezuelans are […]
The Global Rundown Germany sets up a drought early warning system after an abnormally dry year. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer orders the state’s Department of Environmental Quality to establish PFAS safety standards. More than a million people in northwestern Kenya are going hungry in the midst of a lengthy dry spell. Westland, New Zealand, declares […]
The Global Rundown The seven Colorado Basin states finalize their drought contingency plan. The death toll in Mozambique tops 200 in the wake of Cyclone Idai. Seventy-four Nebraska cities declare states of emergency as floodwaters engulf the state. Residents of Papua, Indonesia, plan a mass burial following deadly flooding that killed at least 100. Andrew […]
A web of violence, past droughts, and current dry conditions is ensnaring Ethiopia in an ongoing food crisis.
