12 October 2018. Canada’s Leagold Mining has had to temporarily shut down its Riacho dos Machados (RDM) mine in Brazil as a result of continued drought conditions in the country’s Minas Gerais State. ...
5 March 2018. Kenya Electricity Generating Co. Ltd. (KenGen), despite recent droughts in the country, is moving forward with its efforts to raise the dam wall by 2 m at the 40-MW Masinga hydroelectric ...
19 February 2018. South Africa’s most popular tourist city is still battling drought conditions. The City of Cape Town is running out of water. The drought that’s plagued the Western Cape Province has ...
31 January 2018. Cape Town—a cosmopolitan city of 3.7 million people on South Africa’s western coast—is on the verge of running out of water. According to the city’s mayor, if current consumption patterns ...
19 January 2018. Residents of Cape Town will have to cut their water consumption by 40% from February 1st ,as the second largest city in South Africa is struck by its worst drought in a century.
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30 June 2017. A severe drought followed by heavy rainfalls in Sri Lanka has hit large swaths of cropping areas, threatening the food security of some 900,000 people.
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12 February 2017. Properties have been damaged or destroyed and at least one person has been treated for burns as almost 100 fires burn across the Australian state of New South Wales.
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17 December 2016. Twenty-three cities in China including capital Beijing have activated red alerts and enforced odd-even rules to restrict traffic as the country tries to address severe pollution ...
... by the nation's flood and drought relief headquarters. Nearly 1.5 million people have been evacuated or are in need of aid in Hubei. Almost 9,000 houses have collapsed or are seriously damaged and mor ...
31 Octoberr 2015. The country’s main island, Java, is facing a power deficit as electricity supply is down following disruptions at several big power plants and non-functioning hydropower plants on ...
21 October 2015. As most people in the country know by now, California is currently suffering from a severe, record-breaking drought.
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19 October 2015. Oct 19 Operations at the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea have been suspended due to drought conditions, part owner Barrick Gold said on Monday, the latest mine in the Asia-Pacific ...
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27 September 2015. Dujuan, the 21st typhoon this year, has grown into a super typhoon and is heading toward southeast China's Fujian and Taiwan, the State Flood Control and Drought Relie ...
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22 June 2015. The Chilean government is forcing more than 900 industries to temporarily shut down in the face of an air pollution emergency in the capital city of Santiago, according to a ...
21 May 2015. The protesting group plans to personally deliver to Nestle a petition signed by over 500,000 Californians, calling for an immediate end to bottling California water. Hundreds of other ...
12 April 2015. Every time drought strikes California, the people of this state cannot help noticing the substantial reservoir of untapped water lapping at their shores — 187 quintillion gallons of ...
25 February 2015. São Paulo, home to around 20 million, is experiencing its lowest rainfall since 1930, and new water-saving measures have been introduced in an attempt to manage the escalating catastrophe. ...
23 January 2015. Brazil is dealing with one of its worst droughts in years, causing the city of Sao Paulo to suffer through rolling blackouts. Blistering heat and scant rainfall have depleted reserves ...
22 January 2015. Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, is still reeling from its worst drought in more than 80 years halfway through the wet season, with below average rainfall totals doing little to ease th ...
19 December 2014. A prolonged drought in Central America is turning into a humanitarian crisis for nearly two and a half million people affected by food insecurity in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, ...
18 November 2014. State officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump nearly three billion gallons of waste water into underground aquifers that could have been used for drinking water or irrigation. ...