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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

'Flash droughts' have become more frequent due to human-caused climate change and this trend is predicted to accelerate in a warmer future, according to research published today [13 April 2023 ...

Global warming of 3 degrees Celsius could cause long-term droughts to hit more than 80% of agricultural land in Brazil, China, Egypt and Ethiopia, according to the Climate Change study.

Flash droughts have become more frequent because of human-caused climate change and this trend is predicted to accelerate as temperatures continue to rise, according to research.

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 ...