Water scarcity in Europe rises as EEA warns of growing stress
Water scarcity in Europe worsens as drought and overuse pressure freshwater resources, EEA warns in its latest report....
Tag : drought
Kenya suffers a drought that results in hundreds of elephants and zebras dying
The East African region’s most severe drought in decades has led to the death of hundreds of animals, including hundreds of endangered Grevy’s zebras, in Kenya’s wildlife preserves. This is according to a report released Friday. In the past nine months, the Kenya Wildlife Service and other bodies recorded the......
Wildlife in Kenya is being decimated by drought
Almost 2% of the world’s rarest zebras have been wiped out by Kenya’s most severe drought in 40 years, as well as 25 times as many elephants as usual. Kenya’s famed wildlife is being starved of normal food sources and being driven into deadly conflict with people. This is because......
Hottest July on record brought heat, drought, and wildfires – WMO
According to the UN weather agency, many parts of the world had just experienced the third hottest July on record amid extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. Because of an intense heatwave around mid-July, temperatures across much of Europe were close to 0.4°C above the 1991-2020 average, with southwestern and western......