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A camp for internally displaced people in Baidoa, Somalia.
Displacement
‘Double the suffering’: Between drought and insecurity in Somalia 
Khadija Mohamed al-Makhzoumi is Somalia's first environment and climate change minister.
Climate Change
Somalia’s first environment minister aims to alleviate suffering from climate disasters
People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. 
Climate Change
China endures ‘heat wave from hell’ with record-breaking temperatures
People gather at a playground amid water shortages in Monterrey, Mexico.
Environment
In the north of Mexico, water cuts to cope with shortages hit poor communities hardest 
Fishermen navigate on the Shatt al-Arab waterway during a sandstorm in Basra, Iraq, Monday, May 23, 2022.
Environment
‘It’s a mass ecological crisis’: Extreme weather in Iraq hits those already struggling the hardest
Woman carry jerry cans filled with water at Kuresyon village in Galkayo, Somalia.
Climate Change
Drought, high temps in Somalia are pushing people to move to other towns
More than 600,000 people have become displaced due to the ongoing drought in Somalia. Many end up at camps like this one in Luuq, Somalia, March 21, 2022.
Climate Change
Fears of famine grow amid worst drought in Somalia in decades
A view of a tent camp set by migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gathering at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
Top of The World
EU officials accuse Belarus of creating a new migrant crisis
Ruchi Wario, 60, shepherds livestock at one of the few functioning boreholes in Marsabit County, Kenya, Nov. 3, 2021.
Environment
Ongoing drought devastates parts of Kenya
Yaa Asantewaa laments how farmers affected by climate change lead to a scarcity of vegetables at higher costs.
Climate Change
‘We might be pushed out of business’: Ghana’s vegetable sellers see produce dwindle due to climate change
Woman holding hose from truck to fill water trough
Avoiding water bankruptcy in the drought-troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other
Afghan women and children sit in front of a bakery waiting for bread donations in Kabul's Old City, Afghanistan, on Sept. 16, 2021.
Afghanistan
‘It is a catastrophe’: Afghans are in desperate need of food, humanitarian aid, refugee worker says
Shomali, a little north of Kabul, Afghanistan, July 18, 2005. After seven years of severe drought that impoverished farmers and made millions reliant on food handouts, Afghanistan enjoyed a bountiful harvest.
Afghanistan
‘Drought has severely impacted livestock keepers’ in Afghanistan, head of UN food agency says
Children sit by a dug out water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoarivo, Madagascar
Food
Climate change is driving the worst drought Madagascar has seen in four decades
A boy carries a tub of water down a street past a wall full of grafitti in Arabic letters.
Critical State
Putting the ‘scare’ in scarcity conflicts: Part I
a man inspects a levee in kansas
Climate Change
Climate change is intensifying food shocks
Syrian refugee, Malik Alarmash, left, speaks with Clarkston Mayor Ted Terry, right, at the Refuge Coffee Shop in Clarkston, Georgia. Stephanie Steinbrecher with the Sierra Club, center, listens.
Climate Change
Legally, ‘climate refugees’ don’t exist. But in Georgia, they say they’re already here.
Honduran mother and child on their way to US
Climate Change
Climate change is the overlooked driver of Central American migration
One woman wears an white protective suit and has a large plastic jug strapped to her back; another woman stands next to her as both inspect a branch of a bush.
Aboriginal rangers use traditional knowledge to protect their lands
North American beaver
Environment
‘Beaver Believers’ say dam-building creatures can make the American West lush again
portugal
Environment
Portugal uses abundant water to lure investors to the ‘new California’
Horse on dry lake
Climate Change
Climate change is contributing to the migration of Central American refugees
Cape Town residents gather to collect water at a spring with makshift spigots ear Table Mountain. It's one of dozens of open springs across the city where residents come to collect extra water to add to their meager daily quota of 13 gallons.
Environment
In drought-stricken Cape Town, parched residents gather at a watering hole
Saya Pierce-Jones records a recent report on Cape Town's water crisis for Smile 90.4FM radio. In more than a year on the full-time water beat, Pierce-Jones helped listeners understand the roots of the crisis and find ways to dramatically cut their water u
Culture
Journalist on water beat helped Cape Town avoid ‘Day Zero’
“Cloudfisher” nets erected on Mount Boutmezguida
Technology
These Moroccans are turning foggy days into a solution to their water crisis
People queued to collect water as fears over the city's water crisis grew earlier this year in Cape Town, South Africa.
Business
‘Day Zero’ has been postponed, but Cape Town is still scrambling to deal with its water crisis
Arts, Culture & Media
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Sand blows across a normally submerged area at Theewaterskloof dam near Cape Town, South Africa, January 20, 2018.
Development
Dreading ‘Day Zero’ when the taps run dry in Cape Town
Manantali Dam
Conflict
In Africa, dams and loss of wetlands are helping to fuel the migrant crisis
Global average CO2 concentrations rose at a record rate in 2016 to more than 403 parts per million up from 400.00 ppm in 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Concentrations of CO2 are now nearly 50% higher than pre-industrial levels.
Science
There’s more CO2 in the atmosphere now than any point in almost a million years
Farming in PA
Environment
Wild swings in the weather mean that some farm crops will flourish, while others struggle
South Sudanese refugees wait in line for food in Omugo refugee settlement camp in northern Uganda
Economics
Ugandans pose as refugees for food because the drought is so bad
African woman in Lesotho
Justice
Women in Africa face increased risk from severe drought
An internally displaced woman from drought-hit area at a makeshift settlement area in Dolow, Somalia, April 4, 2017.
Conflict
Somalis walk for days searching for food and water while al-Shabab blocks aid
Child
Conflict
As drought conditions worsen, famine looms over Kenya
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
Bolivia’s dried-out Ajuan Khota dam, a reservoir affected by drought near La Paz, photographed on Nov. 17.
Environment
With melting glaciers and mining, Bolivia’s water is running dangerously low
This vista shows damage by mountain pine beetles to the forests surrounding Hume Lake in California as of April 2016.
Science
How can we save California’s forests?
Technology
Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?
Glen Canyon Dam
Environment
Is it time to think about removing dams on the Colorado River?
Abebe Haregewoin (right) and his father in Ethiopia.
Global Politics
Famine haunted his childhood in Ethiopia. Now he sees food running out again.
Supporters of Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro, during a rally in Caracas, Thursday.
Global Politics
The nation where public workers have to take Friday off
Men dance as others spray colored powder on them during Holi celebrations in India.
Environment
How do you celebrate Holi in the middle of a drought?
Lions
Environment
Why lions can feast during a drought
Ethiopian drought/water jugs
Global Politics
In Ethiopia and other countries, drought related to El Niño is causing a hunger crisis
Mavis, a housekeeper from the Pretoria township of Mamelodi, depends on her garden to help provide for her five children and seven grandchildren. But with this year's region-wide drought, her garden is just a dusty patch of seedlings. “I want rain every d
Environment
For one South African house cleaner, this year’s big drought means crying, hungry children
water barrels
Environment
‘Little Teresa’ helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination — with rain barrels
Measuring the snowpack
Environment
January snows in the Sierras ease, but will not end, California’s drought
John Holdren, President Obama's chief science advisor, says he's optimistic about the world's nations striking a strong climate deal next month in Paris, in part because both the motivation and the means to fight the climate crisis are "growing all the ti
Environment
For Obama’s top science guy, the climate outlook is partly sunny
Dads Behind Bars, Stolen Water, Military Families
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This 1891 inscription talks about a local mayor leading more than 200 people to the cave to get water and pray for rain.
Environment
These Chinese cave inscriptions tell a dramatic 500-year-long story
Desalination
Environment
We’re running out of water. Is desalination the answer?
Poseidon Water employees stand between rows of reverse osmosis filters at the Western Hemisphere's largest seawater desalination plant, currently under construction in Carlsbad, California.
Environment
Desalination is an expensive energy hog, but improvements are on the way
A sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical Pacific Ocean during the peak of the 2009-10 El Niño.
Environment
El Niño is back, and global temperature records are in danger
Workers pick strawberries in a field on a farm in Oxnard, California, on February 24, 2015.
Environment
Agriculture is thriving in bone-dry California, and that’s not a good thing
NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory flies above the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
Environment
How California is surviving its new water crisis
A visitor walks near the receding waters at California's Folsom Lake, which is at 17 percent of its capacity, On April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown announced unprecedented mandatory water restrictions and ordered the State Water Resources Board to r
Environment
California faces the worst water emergency since the Dust Bowl, and it needs solutions fast
A man takes a shower as policemen patrol during an operation in Rio de Janeiro's Mare slums complex on March 30, 2014.
Environment
Drought forces Brazilians to curb their addiction to multiple daily showers
Protesters march through São Paulo recently demanding equitable distribution of water throughout São Paulo state. Unofficial rationing has brought frequent water outages to neighborhoods throughout the Brazilian megalopolis of 20 million people.
Environment
São Paulo residents demand their city take a new attitude about water
A worker fills a water tanker for distribution to a hospital in São Paulo in February. Residents throughout the metropolitan region of 20 million people are taking emergency measures amid a severe drought.
Environment
South America’s largest city is almost out of water