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Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
Afghanistan drought Afghanistan: 1972–1973: Famine in Ethiopia caused by drought and poor governance; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to the fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule: Ethiopia: 60,000 [159] 1973 Darfur drought Darfur, Sudan: 1,000: 1974: Bangladesh famine of 1974 [160] Bangladesh: 27,000 – 1,500,000 ...
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The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin is the largest watershed in the world, ... and 13 of the world’s most intense droughts observed by the satellites have occurred since January 2015.
The U.S. drought monitor has four levels of drought - moderate, severe, extreme, exceptional. They release their findings every Thursday as an update on what the country is facing in terms of ...
As of April 2021, Mexico was facing one of the most widespread droughts in its history, with 85% of the country experiencing drought conditions. [52] As of April 2022, 30% of Mexico, especially the northern region, still has serious, critical and major drought problems. [53] [54] Grass fire images
More than 150 million people in the country and 149.8 million in the lower 48 states are affected by drought this week, a 34.4 percent increase since last week and a 153.5 percent increase since ...
Bolivia has the 13th largest national share of the world's forest cover. [142] As of 2015, its primary forest cover was 36.2 million hectares, the 13th largest national area in the world and representing 2.8% of the worldwide total. [142] Bolivia also has the seventh largest amount of tropical rainforest.