Tag: Droughts

Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher

CACONDE, Brazil -- Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining...

An ancient African tree is providing a new 'superfood' yet local harvesters are barely surviving

K0TWA, Zimbabwe -- Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety...

Google says it will rethink its plans for a big data center in Chile over water worries

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Google on Tuesday said it would halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address...

Drought forces Kenya's Maasai and other herders to look beyond cattle — even to fish

KAJIADO, Kenya -- The blood, milk and meat of cattle have long been staple foods for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya, perhaps the country's...