Tag: Droughts
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...
Malawi receives an insurance payout of $11.2 million for El Nino-linked drought disaster
BLANTYRE, Malawi -- The Malawian government has received an insurance payout of $11.2 million for a crippling El Nino-linked drought that led the...
Sicilians deal so well with drought that tourists don’t notice. A record dry year could alter that
AGRIGENTO, Italy -- Lakes are dry and fields are scorched by heat in Sicily, but water is still gushing copiously for tourists.After an...
Climate change imperils drought-stricken Morocco’s cereal farmers and its food supply
KENITRA, Morocco -- Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the...