Heat and Drought

9+ hour, 30+ min ago   (74+ words) KATV LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Community Water System is informing customers that they may return to normal water use activities after reporting that its pumping capacity and redundant systems have been fully restored. According to a release, CWS lifted its…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (569+ words) In the intensively irrigated farmland of Egypt’s Nile Delta, knowing exactly when crops begin to suffer from water stress can mean the difference between a viable harvest and devastating losses....

1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (71+ words) As global temperatures climb and weather patterns grow increasingly erratic, scientists are turning their attention to some of the smallest organisms on Earth as potential saviors of the world’s food supply. A new thematic collection published in the journal Discover…...

3+ hour, 49+ min ago   (138+ words) Southern California is experiencing a much-needed break from the intense heat that has gripped the region. The relief comes as temperatures begin to drop and weather patterns shift in favor of cooler conditions. Residents can expect more comfortable conditions in…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (107+ words) Yet installing hardware hasn't guaranteed it stays running. During a single 30-day stretch of a 2024 heat wave, San Diego Unified logged more than 1,100 heating and cooling repair work orders despite having AC units on every campus, according to Axios. It's…...

5+ hour, 19+ min ago   (55+ words) Every farmer, grain trader, and food security planner in Europe knows the fear that hangs over a hot, dry summer. The catastrophic growing seasons of 2003 and 2018 showed how compound heat and drought can slash yields across entire continents, and climate…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (730+ words) A sweeping new review published in BMC Agriculture argues that the future of climate-smart farming may lie not in a single miracle microbe, but in the intricate web of relationships that microbes build with one another beneath the surface of…...

9+ hour, 31+ min ago   (608+ words) A sweeping synthesis of more than a quarter-century of research has concluded that biochar, the charcoal-like material produced by heating organic waste in the absence of oxygen, could become one of the most powerful tools available to Mediterranean farmers facing…...

9+ hour, 56+ min ago   (31+ words) An engaging seminar by Dr. Paul Teesdale-Spittle an associate professor Victoria university of Wellington. Ever wondered how we know it’s hot? No, we …...

14+ hour, 12+ min ago   (666+ words) Millets have long been dismissed as orphan crops, overshadowed by maize, rice and wheat in research funding and genomic attention. Yet as climate change intensifies droughts, heatwaves and soil salinization across the world’s most vulnerable agricultural regions, these small-seeded cereals…...