Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape ...

The economic costs of drought could rise by more than one-third in the next 10 years without urgent reforms to water policies ...

01/16/2025 20:00 Mega-droughts are becoming more frequent and intense worldwide Beate Kittl Medienkontakt WSL Birmensdorf Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL. A ...

The study, published in Science, finds that the global land surface affected by these extreme events has expanded at a rate of nearly 50,000 square kilometres (km2) per year in the past four decades – ...

As droughts become more frequent worldwide, the likelihood of MYDs rises, posing severe threats to both natural ecosystems and human systems.

Heat waves, droughts and forest fires are some of the extreme climate-related events that are expected not only to become more frequent but also to increasingly strike at the same time. This ...

Staples including wheat, beef and coffee are all being affected by the lack of rainfall. In some cases, prices are climbing ...

Droughts are expected to become more wide-reaching, frequent and extreme (Getty Images) Droughts are caused by periods of drier-than-normal conditions, when little or no rain falls.

This accumulation is no coincidence: multi-year droughts have become more frequent, longer, and more extreme over the last 40 years, according to a study led by the WSL and published in the journal ...