- To counter the worsening drought🔍
- Addressing the Drought Crisis🔍
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought🔍
- How Can We Work With Nature to Tackle Drought and Desertification?🔍
- Farmers Employ Strategies To Reduce Risk of Drought Damages🔍
- Climate change found to be main driver of worsening drought🔍
- Droughts are getting worse and urgent action is needed🔍
- Desertification and Drought Day 2024🔍
To counter the worsening drought
To counter the worsening drought, California needs healthy soils
The ability of carbon-rich soils to store water and be more resilient to drought and extreme weather is well-documented. For every 1% increase ...
Addressing the Drought Crisis | U.S. Department of the Interior
Unfortunately, drought conditions in the West continue to worsen, and water allocations are at historic lows, including in areas like the Klamath River ...
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought | United Nations
... worsening droughts, floods and wildfires. At the same time, growing populations coupled with unsustainable production and consumption ...
How Can We Work With Nature to Tackle Drought and Desertification?
Nearly 1.3 billion people rely on agriculture as their main source of income. As intense weather worsens, droughts increase in intensity and ...
Farmers Employ Strategies To Reduce Risk of Drought Damages
Farmers can improve their drought resilience by making different crop choices, enrolling in crop insurance and other farm risk management ...
Climate change found to be main driver of worsening drought
Experts say more intense droughts supercharged by climate change will require significant shifts in agricultural water use because farms consume ...
Droughts are getting worse and urgent action is needed, says UN
Droughts are intensifying around the world due to climate change. The UN says solutions such as land restoration must be stepped up to combat
Desertification and Drought Day 2024 - UNCCD
... worsening droughts, floods and wildfires.Yet, every second, an equivalent of four football fields of healthy land becomes degraded, adding up to a total of ...
To counter the worsening drought, California needs healthy soils
It is time for California's leaders to take bold action to improve the health of our soils, which would improve water storage capacity, ...
Droughts and Climate Change | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
Drought is a serious environmental threat across the United States. Climate change exacerbates droughts by making them more frequent, longer, and more ...
The Dust Bowl | National Drought Mitigation Center
When drought began in the early 1930s, it worsened these poor economic conditions. The depression and drought hit farmers on the Great Plains the hardest. Many ...
Drought - Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Droughts can develop quickly or gradually over several weeks, months or even years, and worsened with extreme heat or wind. A drought can end just as quickly or ...
Drought and Climate Change - C2ES
Governments and businesses must identify their vulnerability to drought and improve resilience. They can help prepare for both future droughts and climate ...
What If California's Drought Continues?
During droughts, California relies on water stored in surface reservoirs and especially groundwater basins to help offset shortfalls in precipitation. This ...
Around the globe, as the climate crisis worsens, droughts set in
A recent report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification found that the number and duration of droughts has increased by ...
Water scarcity and droughts - European Commission - Environment
Overexploitation of available water resources can exacerbate the consequences of droughts. ... International commitments: UN Convention to Combat ...
SCWD Board takes action to Combat Worsening Drought Conditions
SCWD's Board of Directors voted on April 14th to move to a Level 2 Water Supply Shortage which prompts a series of conservation actions outlined ...
Ask the Experts: Drought and Climate Change in California
We'll either have multiple years of precipitation or it will recharge groundwater or streams to counter ... worse than many cars because cars have ...
Based on increasing precipitation deficits dating back to the beginning of October, declining soil moisture, and continued dry weather through ...
Opinion: To Counter the Worsening Drought, California Needs ...
California is in the early stages of a severe multi-decadal drought, exacerbated by the climate crisis. As Dan Walters pointed out in his recent commentary, ...