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 ...

Droughts spanning multiple years have become drier, hotter and more frequent over the past 40 years, according to new research. The study, published in Science, finds that the global land surface ...

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

Extreme weather events are becoming more common across the world, and India is feeling the heat—quite literally. Among the ...

Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it's not just changing rainfall patterns that are to blame. The atmosphere is also getting thirstier.

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 ...

Only 26.82 percent of land was completely drought-free, 27.91 percent Abnormally Dry, 22.21 percent under Moderate Drought, 17.61 percent under Severe Drought, 4.92 percent under Extreme Drought ...

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.

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 – ...

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 ...