Tag: Drought & Fires

Mexico Now Enduring Worst Drought in Years

MEXICO CITY - Mexico is enduring its worst drought in six decades. Crops are drying up in the fields

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Drought-hit farmers in India sell wives to pay debts

Drought-hit farmers in northern India are resorting to selling their wives to repay debts to local loan sharks, activists

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Californian drought into third year – Special Video Report

Video Report: Three years of drought decimates Californian harvests

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Drought, debt lead to rapid increase in Indian farmers’ suicides

HYDERABAD, India — Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India

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Despair as drought cripples ‘Australia’s Mississippi’

Farmer Mazzareno Bisogni fights back tears as he stands among the remains of trees he planted 35 years ago,

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Indian drought threatens rice, sugar output

In vast parched swathes of rural India, farmers are eyeing with despair their bone-dry fields as they face the

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China drought leaves 5 million short of water

BEIJING -- A drought in China's north has left nearly 5 million people short of drinking water and damaged

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Mexico hit by lowest rainfall in 68 years

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is suffering from its driest year in 68 years, killing crops and cattle in

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Access to water key for world’s poor

An international cast of politicians, industry leaders and United Nations officials joined forces Monday to improve access to water

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China could see emissions peak in 2030: govt panel

China could see its greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2030 if it sets "quantitative" reduction targets and invests heavily

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