The "hanging gardens" of Djebba El Olia have been put to the test this year as the North African country sweltered through its hottest July since the 1950s.

The analysis, "Hunger in a heating world," found that acute hunger had risen 123 percent over six years in the ten most-affected nations, defined by the most number of UN weather appeals. "The effects of severe weather events are already being felt," Lia Lindsey, Oxfam America's senior humanitarian policy advisory...

After a summer marked by drought, massive wildfires and continuing loss of life in Ukraine, the 44-year-old leader delivered a stark speech at the start of the first cabinet meeting after the country's traditional August holiday break. Macron said that he believed that they are in the process of living...

More than 3,300 families across 10 provinces in Iraq's center and south were displaced due to "climate factors" as of March this year, the report said, blaming water scarcity, high salinity and poor water quality.

The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record temperatures, flash floods and droughts this summer -- phenomena that scientists have warned are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Southern China in particular has recorded its longest sustained period of high temperatures and sparse rain since records...

Authorities said they deployed more than 1,700 firefighters over Wednesday and Thursday. The dead included more than 10 children and a similar number of firefighters, according to multiple sources including local journalists and the fire service. But officials have also been accused of a lack of preparation, with few firefighting...

Water shortage has dealt a crippling blow to farming in the North African country as successive droughts exact a heavy economic cost.

No longer having access to potable running water, the villagers of Ouled Essi Masseoud rely solely on sporadic supplies in public fountains and from private wells. The situation is critical, given the village's position in the agricultural province of Settat, near the Oum Errabia River and the Al Massira Dam,...

As the Gulf country sets aside about US$163bn to achieve zero-emission, the number of enterprises focusing on renewable energy is growing, Simon Birkebaek of BCG tells TRENDS.

Tunisian farmer Mondher Mathali surveys a sea of swaying golden wheat and revs his combine harvester, a rumbling beast from 1976 that he fears could break down at any moment.  Since the Ukraine war sent global cereal prices soaring, import-dependent Tunisia has announced a push to grow all its own...

Umm Mohammed, 74, waves a fan back and forth to cool down, but in the blistering heat of Iraq's southern city of Basra there is nothing but stiflingly hot air.

Iraq passed Wednesday an emergency finance bill to pay debts to Iran to ensure gas supplies and forestall worsening power cuts, as well as to buy grain for "food security".

The country is among the countries most vulnerable and poorly prepared for climate change, which is forecast to worsen.

A withering drought and poor harvests plus price hikes fueled by the war in Ukraine are threatening Morocco's fragile economic recovery.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded election defeat Saturday, hours after voters issued a stinging rebuke of his party's inaction on climate change. The balance of power could yet rest with a string of climate-focused independent candidates who routed Morrison's Liberals in a string of once-safe conservative urban seats.

Somali lawmakers gathered in Mogadishu Sunday to vote in the country's long-overdue presidential election, with 35 candidates vying for the top job in the troubled Horn of Africa nation as it battles an Islamist insurgency and the threat of famine.

Drought is threatening the Iraqi tradition of growing amber rice, the aromatic basis of rich lamb and other dishes, and a key element in a struggling economy. The long-grained variety of rice takes its name from its distinctive scent, which is similar to that of amber resin. It is used...

Iraq will have to import wheat this year as it may only grow 2.5-3 million tons of wheat, "not enough for a whole year for the Iraqis," Agriculture ministry spokesman said.

Oil-rich Iraq, despite its mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is classified as one of the world's five countries most vulnerable to climate change and desertification.

As Morocco withers under its worst drought in 40 years, experts warn that a combination of climate change and bad resource management could trigger severe drinking water shortages.

The plant fiber reached $1.3171 per pound (about 453 grams) on the key US futures contract, the highest since July 2011.

AGL Australia's largest energy company said its board had over the weekend rejected a joint bid of $8.25 (US$6) per share from Cannon-Brookes, founder of the tech firm Atlassian.

Morocco said Wednesday it will launch a nearly $1 billion aid program to help its agriculture industry, which has been hit hard by a particularly acute drought in recent years. The emergency plan "aims to mitigate the effects of delay in rainfall, to alleviate the impact on agricultural activity and...

Amir Khan Muttaqi, a key member of the Taliban leadership, met in Doha with ambassadors from the six-nation GCC on the first full day of his latest mission.

Jordan will distribute JD1 million to compensate those suffered losses due to the Al Waleh Dam draught and cross-border fires in the northern Jordan Valley.

Flood devastation, heavy rainfall, and Drought in Canada cause severe damage to the food supply chain and agricultural production.

Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment.

The reservoir formed by Al-Duwaysat Dam in Idlib province, a key irrigation source for thousands of farmers, is littered with stranded rowing boats, animal skulls and dead trees.

UN agencies have said the impact of water shortages in Iraq is becoming evident through the lower crop yields for 2021.

Turkey’s pine honey harvests — especially in the Mugla region — were already suffering from drought when the wildfires hit. The fires destroyed the delicate balance between bees, trees, and the little insects — the Basra beetle from which the bees collect the honey — at the heart of the...

Agriculture accounts for around six percent of Turkey's GDP and employs 18 percent of the country's workforce.

Farmers in the North African nation are turning to the past by planting indigenous seeds at a time of drought, disease and climate change.

Experts say Israel and Jordan could be poised for an unprecedented boom in water cooperation

Reputed to have once flown through the biblical Garden of Eden, the Euphrates runs for almost 2,800 km (1,700 miles) across Turkey, Syria and Iraq, irrigating swathes of land in Syria's breadbasket, and runs through three hydroelectric dams. But over the past eight months the river has contracted to a...

Fresh water resources are becoming scarce due to drought in Egypt, which is more than 90% dependent on the Nile for water.

Iran is currently suffering a drought that has led to water protests in several regions, most so in the Khuzestan province.

Heavy rains produced flash floods that turned streets into running rivers and sparked mudslides that buckled roads

The authorities should immediately release peaceful protesters, provide information about deaths, and allow an independent international investigation, says Human Rights Watch .

The demonstration was a spillover from protests in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, where water protests began more than 10 days ago

HRW has condemned the Iran’s response to ongoing internal water protests; at least four people have been killed by security forces

Iran put anti-riot measures in place in Tehran on Wednesday following continued water protests in Khuzestan

This month, power generation impacted by drought results in rolling blackouts in the capital Tehran and other large cities

Iraq's hardscrabble farmers and livestock herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life.