One of the driest growing seasons in decades has decimated crops and left millions hungry.
Published Apr 22, 2024
Shifting rainfall patterns are projected to leave millions of people without consistent access to food in late 2023 and early 2024.
Published Oct 30, 2023
As water dropped to critically low levels, electricity production suffered and power outages plagued Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Published Mar 14, 2023
The world’s largest reservoir now stands at its lowest level since 1996.
Published Dec 30, 2019
Poor harvests stemming from a prolonged dry spell have exacerbated food insecurity in northeastern Uganda.
Published Oct 23, 2023
The impact of the drought on plants in Moldova and parts of Ukraine and Romania is illustrated by this pair of images. The images are vegetation anomaly images, which indicate how quickly plants were taking in light and growing.
Published Oct 6, 2007
Diminished rainfall, combined with soaring temperatures, has jeopardized the food security and energy supplies of millions of people in the region.
Published Dec 16, 2019
More than 64 million people are directly affected by drought in the Southwest and Southern Plains, and far more are indirectly affected because of the vast number of farms, orchards, and ranches that supply the rest of the United States.
Published Nov 27, 2014
The U.S. Drought Monitor reports its lowest levels in 17 years.
Published May 5, 2017
Drought is apparent across much of East Africa after seasonal rains failed to deliver much moisture to the region.
Published May 30, 2019
Most of Texas is brown in this vegetation index image, revealing the negative impact drought had on plants in August 2009.
Published Aug 12, 2009
Severe to extreme drought persists in the Southwest and the Plains in May 2014.
Published May 13, 2014
By late February 2018, an estimated 55 percent of the continental U.S. was classified as abnormally dry.
Published Mar 2, 2018
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