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A multi-year drought has put extra strain on farmers and water managers in the Middle Eastern country.
As water dropped to critically low levels, electricity production suffered and power outages plagued Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Intense rains during the wet season for a second year in a row have caused trouble for riparian communities near…
The current La Niña event fits into a larger climate pattern that has been going on for nearly two decades.
The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
Satellite data shows that water levels in Iraq’s largest reservoir have reached heights not seen in more than a decade.
Cooler than normal conditions prevail in the central and eastern Pacific, but the event is so far considered weak.
The near-record water temperatures of 2015-16 has been followed by a modest, quiet appearance of La Niña.
