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1990 UK Drought and Heatwave; 1995 UK Drought and Heatwave (The drought generally lasted until Summer 1997) 2003 UK Drought and Heatwave; 2006 UK Drought and Heatwave; 2011 UK Drought and March–April Heatwave (The drought continued from 2010 and lasted through until March 2012) Part of the 2010-2012 UK Drought. 2011 UK September–October ...
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 Grande Seca (English: Great Drought), or the Brazilian drought of 1877–1878, was the largest and most devastating drought in Brazilian history. [2] It caused the deaths of between 400,000 and 500,000 people.
The 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought is a drought that hit the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The rainy season of 2022 was recorded to be the driest in over 40 years, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with an estimated 43,000 in Somalia dying in 2022.
1839 Severe drought in the west and north of Spencer Gulf, South Australia. 1846 Severe drought converted the interior and far north of South Australia into an arid desert. 1849 Sydney received about 27 inches less rain than normal. 1850 Severe drought, with big losses of livestock across inland New South Wales and around the western rivers region.
Megadroughts have historically led to the mass migration of humans away from drought affected lands, resulting in a significant population decline from pre-drought levels. . They are suspected of playing a primary role in the collapse of several pre-industrial civilizations, including the Ancestral Puebloans of the North American Southwest, [6] the Khmer Empire of Cambodia, [7] the Maya of ...