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Oil slicks in the Khabur River in Syria, a major tributary of the Euphrates, have left agriculture “almost impossible” according to one farmer in Hasakah. For the past two months, Riyadh Al-Aswad has been desperately struggling to keep his wheat crop alive long enough for the harvest season. He is not alone in his plight as hundreds of other farmers across the northeast grapple with the pollution. The oil spills, which first appeared in February, were blamed on Türkiye after its military conducted a series of airstrikes on Kurdish-affiliated oil refineries in northeastern Syria. “Since the att...
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Spain’s drought-stricken region of Catalonia will install a floating desalination plant to help the city of Barcelona guarantee its drinking water supply, regional authorities said Thursday. Barcelona already relies on Europe’s largest desalination plant for domestic use to compensate over three years of below average rainfall that have led to a historic drought made worse by climate change. In February, Catalonia's regional government declared a drought emergency for much of the surrounding region. Now Spain’s second-largest city will get a temporary second desalination plant in its port late...
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Spain’s drought-stricken northeastern Catalonia is considering imposing water restrictions on tourists in the driest parts of the region if domestic consumption is not curtailed, the Catalan government said on Tuesday. The restriction of 100 litres per tourist per day for hotels would go into effect if a municipality fails to keep domestic water use by residents below established limits for three consecutive months under the current 'drought emergency' for Catalonia, officials said. Barcelona, Spain’s second largest city and the regional capital, uses 160 litres of water per resident per day -...
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January, February and March are likely to have been Spain’s warmest first quarter since records began in 1961. National meteorological agency Aemet said on Tuesday that the average temperature in mainland Spain during the first three months of the year was 9.5C. That is 1.9C higher than the average for this time of year and 0.1C higher than the previous record set in 1997. Final data is still needed to confirm the record but the meteorological agency has said, as January and February were already very warm months, it believes the first quarter of 2024 was the warmest in history. Temperatures i...
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Standing in a field of apple trees in Catalonia, fruit and cereal farmer Ramón Falguera looks worried. Last year, fruit harvests dropped by around a third and wheat by half due to a lack of rain and restrictions on water use in this area of northeast Spain. The water canal used for irrigating the farmland, which stems from rivers born in the Pyrenees mountains, only opened for a month last spring for the first time since it was built 160 years ago. The drought is thought to be the worst in 200 years, hitting large swathes of the region following more than three years of low rainfall and record...
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As the world warms at unpredented speed due to human-caused climate change, fresh water for drinking, cooking and cleaning is becoming harder to get for many people. That’s because the warming world is leading to erratic rainfall patterns, extreme heat and periods of drought - on top of decades of bad water management and extractive policies around the world. The United Nations estimates that around 2.2 billion people worldwide don't have access to safely managed drinking water. This World Water Day, Associated Press journalists from around the world interviewed some of the people struggling t...
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By Mary TARUVINGA Kanyemba (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - Normalement d'un vert vigoureux à cette époque de l'année, les champs de maïs de Ladias Konje restent tristement jaunis par la sécheresse: le phénomène climatique El Nino fait resurgir le spectre de la faim pour des millions de Zimbabwéens. "Nous devrions compter sur du maïs fraichement récolté, des citrouilles et des arachides. Mais cette année rien ne pousse dans les champs", se désole l'agricultrice de 38 ans rencontrée dans le village de Kanyemba, dans le nord-est du pays. Selon les Nations unies, plus de 13 millions de personnes en Afrique aus...
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Zimbabwe, Africa’s largest tobacco producer, began its annual tobacco-selling season on Wednesday, with officials and farmers projecting a sharp decline in harvests and quality because of a drought blamed on climate change and worsened by El Niño. From a record harvest of 296 million kilograms (326,000 tons) last year, the country is estimating that production will fall to about 235 million kilograms (259,000 tons) this season, says Patrick Devenish, chairman of the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB), at the official opening event in the capital, Harare. “Most of our tobacco is grown by s...
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With temperatures rising in Europe at double the global average, policy makers' failure to keep pace with increasing extremes of weather could soon have “catastrophic” consequences, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warns in a disturbing new report as the EU executive prepares to unveil a climate resilience plan. In its first detailed climate risk assessment, published today (11 March), the Copenhagen-based EU agency has taken a detailed look at the frequency and intensity of drought, heatwaves and other weather phenomena and concluded there is a clear and present threat to life, livelihoo...
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This February was the world’s warmest on record, according to new data from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). This is the ninth month in a row that temperatures have broken records. It comes after last year was revealed to be the hottest the world has seen since records began. February was around 0.81C above the 1991 to 2020 average for the month and a tenth of a degree warmer than the previous record set back in 2016. The ninth consecutive record-breaking month in a row alone is staggering, but put into perspective it highlights the trend of continued global warming. “Back in ...
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