Drought

UCLA geyser and floodings in Los Angeles. Ironic! As a historic and extreme drought dries up California, a water main breaks and floods parts of...

A severe drought is plaguing east China's Anhui Province, leaving crops damaged and drinking water supplies disrupted. A total of 45 cities and counties have...

Namibia looks to sell 1,000 wild animals to game farms as national parks run out of water. Six hundred buffaloes, 28 elephants and 60 giraffes set...

A long-lost underwater buddhist temple, called Wat Nong Bua Yai, has reemerged in central Thailand, following an extreme drought that is slowly drying up all...

Manila has been hit by its worst water shortage in years, leaving bucket-bearing families to wait hours to fill up from tanker trucks and...

A historic megadrought is parching the American West. And with global temperatures only set to rise further, the emerging crisis is now thought to...

If you think it is too hot where you live, then don't travel to Death Valley! On Sunday, June 8, 2014 an amazing 120°F...

California needs rain, and they need it bad. How bad? Just have a look at the GIF below. OMG! The ongoing California drought has...

This is pretty unexpected! The Napa Quake released torrents of groundwater and thus may help ease the region's drought. Indeed, the massive tremor forced groundwater...

In the 1930s, the United States was suffering from the most severe drought in its history, the "Dust Bowl." And be prepared to bite the...

While North America's east coast is experiencing dramatic low temperatures, Australia's heatwave is so hot it's causing the roads to MELT. The Bureau of...

A 16th century ancient Mexican church has re-emerged from a reservoir in Mexico due to lack of rain. The ruins of the colonial church re-appeared...

Massive dust storm engulfs Phoenix Valley on July 25, 2014. Yesterday, a MASSIVE dust storm, or haboob, has swept across Phoenix, Arizona. This giant wall of...

Water restrictions for you, and endless supply for them. A foreign corporate giant is snapping up 89 BILLION liters of Australia's water as the country...

This is really an amazing moment. Imagine a dry river bed in the remote desert of Negev, Israel, suddenly filling up with water after years...

Many citizens are resigning themselves to dry dams and a complete shutdown of their taps in Cape Town, South Africa. But, as we’ve seen...

Besides the extreme drought, The Meadow fire is one of the most tragic natural disasters sweeping across California these days. And this timelapse video of...

Suddenly what was once thought to be a problem confined to the third world has arrived in southern Europe. The Douro River is 60 percent...

I have always told you to do so... Prep for water and grow your own food! After one of the warmest, driest springs on...

Back in 2009, an unprecedented water level decrease of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers has left the rural population at the mercy of heat,...

Temperature oddity in Alaska!  Alaska set numerous record high temperatures in the past couple of weeks, even in towns north of the Arctic Circle. In...

A Hydrology expert says his research suggests South Africa is experiencing its worst drought in a thousand years. Dr Gideon Groenewald says small towns...

An enormous and wild dust storm has engulfed Bedourie, a small town in Queensland, Australia. The sand storm was so intense that it turned the...

The weird weather continues battling the US. While flash floods engulfed Flint, Michigan and over 3 inches of rain flooded Boston, Massachusetts, 12% of Montana...

A derecho's hurricane-force winds slammed through about half of Chad West's 4,500 acres of corn and soybeans Aug. 10. Now, the drought is burning up the rest...

The water level at Lake Mead hit its lowest point of elevation at 1,079 feet on May 1 2015. It is dropping one foot a...

Have you ever sighted a firenado? Yes, you know, a tornado of fire? A so-called “firenado”, with the appearance of a tornado on fire, was...

Oregon’s only saltwater lake is disappearing, and scientists don't know why An environmental mystery is taking place at Lake Abert. Scientists are baffled as they...

Every five or so years, it rips me apart to watch the same tragedy: a La Niña weather cycle brings devastating drought and hunger...

The southernmost portion of Southeast Alaska, the state's wettest region, including Ketchikan, Prince of Wales Island, Wrangell and Metlakatla, has been in a drought...

Today, thousands of fish lay dead in what used to be Mountain Meadows Reservoir, also known as Walker Lake. And how this popular fish pond...

Four years of California drought have had a severe effect on the national forests. At least 12 million trees have died and will continue to die...

There is a new 200-foot long mystery island in the middle of Pinto Lake, California since March 10, 2016. This mysterious piece of wetland broke off during extreme...

This is the worst drought hitting Brazil in decades! It is even threatening water supplies to the country's biggest city, Sao Paolo. It is the worst...

Considered as the second largest lake of Bolivia, after Lake Titicaca, Poopó has virtually disappeared. This lake, formely home of multitude of endemic species, is...

Extreme drought in California have baffling consequences. Ghost gold rush town Mormon Island emerges from dried Folsom Lake! WOW! Record Driest Year in California! Since 1955,...

They prayed for rain! But didn't ask for a deluge! After two days of torrential rain, the south-central part of Chile is being wreaked havoc by floods,...

Castaic Lake, the largest water project reservoir in California, is popular with local residents for boating, kayaking and other aquatic activities, but it also...

There’s a chance water levels in the two largest man-made reservoirs in the United States could dip to critically low levels by 2025, jeopardizing...