After the Suez Canal incident, the Panama Canal is facing a similar situation, with ships now paying tolls almost eight times higher due to drought. On a recent day, more than fifty ships—from cargo ships loaded with food to tankers transporting propane—were waiting to pass through the Panama Canal. Longer
Spain’s “stonehenge” has become fully visible for the second time since water hid it in the 1960s thanks to a drought there. However, this is not the only recent discovery as ancient artifacts, dinosaur tracks and Nazi ships have all appeared around the world as drought causes low water levels.
A giant UAV named Wing Loong-2H has been launched by China to combat record drought by cloud-seeding, which means releasing silver iodide flame bars to produce artificial rain.
Water cops may be hired by the Santa Clara Valley Water District of California amid the megadrought to monitor the wastage of water.
A new study by Indian and American researchers confirm how Winston Churchill caused the Bengal Famine and starved over 3 million Indians to death. Glorified as the “Saviour of the World” in the west and dubbed the “Butcher of Bengal” by Indians, the streets of eastern Indian cities were lined
Ever since China erected a cascade of giant dams on the Mekong, droughts have become more frequent and intense in the downriver countries like India. Although China has promised to release more dam water for the drought-stricken countries, this offer only highlights their newfound reliance on Chinese goodwill — a
Pollution in Europe has contributed to one of the worst droughts in India which has destroyed the lives of more than 130 million people, according to a new study. Researchers believe manufactured aerosols are to blame for the weakening of monsoon winds and rain in India over the past few