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A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. [1]: 1157 A drought can last for days, months or years.Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems and agriculture of affected regions, and causes harm to the local economy.
Along the drought-stricken Colorado River, ... change at a time when the country has the necessary science, technologies, policy tools and people who are working on solutions. ...
The Western Governors' Association described the need for NIDIS in a 2004 report, Creating a Drought Early Warning System for the 21st Century: The National Integrated Drought Information System. The NIDIS Act calls for an interagency, multi-partner approach to drought monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, led by the National Oceanic and ...
Since 2000, high evaporative demand alone can now trigger drought conditions in 66% of the historically drought-prone regions, even without decreased rainfall. Before 2000, this was true for only ...
Improving yields in drought years will go a long way toward securing our food supply, and these companies are at the forefront of the technology that will accomplish that. Add them to My Watchlist ...
In 2024 the World Meteorological Organization published a report saying that climate change had severely destabilized water cycle during the year 2023, causing both stronger rainfall and stronger drought. The world’s rivers had their driest year in at least 30 years and many of the world’s major river basins were drying up like the basins ...
According to Alday, nature-based solutions like floodable parks can also help cities deal with drought by storing water that can be used later. ... these solutions also come with trade-offs, says ...
The drought is largely driven by temperature, which increases the rate of evaporation, with some contribution from the lack of precipitation. The several wet years since 2000 were not sufficient to end the drought. Researchers calculated that without climate change-induced evaporation, the precipitation in 2005 would have broken the drought.