Latest Droughts News
Halfway Home: Count on surprises, familiar faces in second half of NASCAR's regular season
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — The first half of NASCAR's regular season wrapped with a satisfying, drought-busting win by past champion Brad Keselowski at Darlington Raceway. Keselowski, in his third full season as a driver-owner at Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, locked himself into...
Brad Keselowski wins at Darlington Raceway, ending his 3-year NASCAR win drought
DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — There were so many special parts of Brad Keselowski's first NASCAR victory in three years, it was difficult for him to say what meant the most. It was the 36th of his career and his second at Darlington Raceway, which he reveres as an ultimate test of...
Rory McIlroy pulls within shot of Xander Schauffele in Wells Fargo Championship
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Xander Schauffele has gone 38 tournaments without a win on the PGA Tour. Rory McIlroy is doing his best to make sure Schauffele's painful drought continues. McIlroy shot a bogey-free 4-under 67 on Saturday on fast greens to pull within a stroke...
US dedicates $60 million to saving water along the Rio Grande as flows shrink and demands grow
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is dedicating $60 million over the next few years to projects along the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and West Texas to make the river more resilient in the face of climate change and growing demands. The funding announced Friday by...
UN seeks $430 million for drought-hit Zimbabwe, saying millions of people need food and water
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — About half of Zimbabwe’s population urgently needs food and water after the country’s worst drought in four decades, the U.N. humanitarian agency said Thursday as it launched an appeal for $430 million to help those most in need. About 7.6 million of the...
Landowners oppose Wichita Falls proposal to dam river for a reservoir to support water needs
HENRIETTA, Texas (AP) — One rancher said the proposed reservoir would cut through her property and flood areas of her ranch she needs to graze cattle. Another said it would flood ancestral lands that have been in his family since the 1880s. Another said his kid’s childhood home,...
Rainfall allows Spain's Catalonia to ease water restrictions for 1st time during drought
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s Catalonia region will ease restrictions on water use for a wide area including Barcelona after recent rainfall palliated a prolonged drought, regional authorities said Tuesday. Catalonia declared a drought emergency in February when its reservoirs...
Defending champ Jason Day, hometown favorite Jordan Spieth headline Byron Nelson
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Jason Day was something of an oh-by-the-way winner of the Byron Nelson 14 years ago when Jordan Spieth generated plenty of headlines as the local teenager contending on the weekend. Now Day is the defending champion, thanks to a victory perhaps just as...
Study says California's 2023 snowy rescue from megadrought was a freak event. Don't get used to it
DENVER (AP) — Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found. Don’t get used to it because with climate change the 2023 California snow bonanza —a record for...
African farmers look to the past and the future to address climate change
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the heavily agriculture-reliant African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world's youngest...
