Latest Droughts News

Red Wings beat Sabres 4-1, ending 7-game losing streak to boost chance at a wild-card spot

Mar. 16, 2024 16:38 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings earned a desperately needed win in their quest to make the playoffs for the first time in eight years and pushed Buffalo a little lower in the standings, increasing the Sabres' chances of extending the NHL's longest active postseason drought. ...

Zimbabwe predicts a sharp decline in tobacco crop as El Niño takes toll, a year after record harvest

Mar. 13, 2024 07:52 AM EDT

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests and quality because of a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by the El Niño weather phenomenon....

Ethiopia's Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children

Mar. 10, 2024 21:30 PM EDT

NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister's recent death in childbirth. A two-year war between...

A religious procession in Barcelona celebrates rain during a severe drought in northeast Spain

Mar. 10, 2024 12:46 PM EDT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A religious procession in downtown Barcelona celebrated the appearance of long-awaited rain, after nine days of praying for relief from a severe drought. Around 100 local people took part in the Catholic ceremony on a rainy Saturday evening. ...

To save water, drought-hit Morocco is closing its famous public baths three days a week

Mar. 07, 2024 19:44 PM EST

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — For years, Fatima Mhattar has welcomed shopkeepers, students, bankers and retirees to Hammam El Majd, a public bath on the outskirts of Morocco's capital, Rabat. For a handful of change, they relax in a haze of steam then are scrubbed down and rinsed off alongside their...

Amid Louisiana's crawfish shortage, governor issues disaster declaration

Mar. 06, 2024 15:50 PM EST

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for the impacted industry Wednesday. Last year’s drought, extreme heat,...

Mexico City drought causes rainwater catchment basin to catch fire and burn for a day

Mar. 05, 2024 18:09 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s drought and water shortage is so bad that one of the capital’s rainwater catchment basins caught fire Tuesday, scorching 75 acres (30 hectares) of dried-up vegetation. The Mexico City fire department said in a statement that the fire had been...

Fresh from a deadly cholera outbreak, Zambia declares drought a national emergency

Feb. 29, 2024 13:18 PM EST

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema Thursday declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency, saying it has devastated food production and electricity generation as the nation battles to recover from a recent deadly cholera outbreak. ...

POLL ALERT: UConn is a unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25; No. 21 Washington State ends its 302-week poll drought

Feb. 19, 2024 13:05 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — POLL ALERT: UConn is a unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25; No. 21 Washington State ends its 302-week poll drought.

Thousands of Spanish farmers stage a second day of tractor protests over EU policies and prices

Feb. 07, 2024 23:29 PM EST

MADRID (AP) — Mirroring protests across Europe, thousands of farmers in Spain staged a second day of tractor demonstrations on Wednesday across the country, blocking highways to demand changes in European Union farming policies and measures to combat production cost hikes and severe drought. ...