Drought in Canada
‘Country not likely to experience agricultural drought’
As the precipitation increased by 53 percent in March, if the precipitation is regular and sufficient in April and May, the country will not experience agricultural drought in summer, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has announced.
How Climate Change Is Affecting World Regions (infographic)
Heavy precipitation and drought have been increasing with scientific certainty in many regions of the world
Turkey experiencing severe drought, NASA maps show
Turkey began 2021 experiencing intense drought in a majority of its provinces, two maps published on Jan. 19 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) showed.
More than 80 percent of Turkey's soil is facing "severe drought," NASA's maps showed.
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Wetlands of Turkey dried up by half in 40 years: NGO
About half of the wetlands in Turkey have dried up in the last 40 years, due to a combination of increasing temperatures, drought and excessive abstraction of water for agriculture, according to the Istanbul-based Society for the Protection of Nature (DHKD), a conservation non-governmental organization.
NASA says recent drought in Turkey and eastern Mediterranean worst in 900 years
The continued drought in the eastern Mediterranean, including the Levant region and Turkey, since 1998 was drier than the worst drought in the past 900 years, a new study by NASA has revealed.