Tag: drought
El Niño deepens regional strain as Southeast Asia battles fires and...
Indonesia’s fires, Myanmar’s electricity warnings and Philippine hydropower concerns show how El Niño is testing communities across Asia
El Niño threatens 190 million children across Asia-Pacific
UN agencies warn worsening El Niño could disrupt food, water, health and schooling for millions of vulnerable children
Indigenous communities face mounting hardship as rivers dry in Papua New...
Falling water levels are disrupting supplies, straining health services and worsening shortages across remote communities dependent on river transport
Philippine settlement submerged by dam reappears due to drought
The ruins in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija province are a tourist draw, even as the region swelters in extreme heat
As El Niño bites, Indonesians grapple with record-high rice prices
El Niño's dry weather has hit Indonesian rice supplies causing record price rises for consumers and crop failures for farmers
Drought in Sri Lanka devastates farmland and fuels poaching
As rice production declines, an imminent shortage is anticipated, which will likely result in sharp price hike
Taiwan tribe despairs as drought shrinks bamboo crop
But for the third year in a row, the government is providing subsidies to farmers not to plant their crops -- a sign of the severe water needs
Heat wave blasts Southeast Asia – a likely pattern for the...
Record high temperatures scorch the region due to a mix of natural and human factors
Iraq’s Garden of Eden now ‘like a desert’
The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall
Asia suffered hottest year on record in 2020, says UN
Extreme weather and climate change impacts across Asia in 2020 caused the loss of life of thousands of people
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