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Serbia is battling multiple wildfires fuelled by extreme heat, strong winds and prolonged drought. A reignited blaze in the Deliblato Sands nature reserve has burned about 300 hectares, while emergency teams continue firefighting efforts amid worsening weather conditions nationwide

Wildfires are intensifying across eastern United States, with scientists linking rising incidents to climate change, drought, and storm debris. Increased fuel and dry conditions are driving more frequent, destructive fires, especially in densely populated forest regions

Despite a ceasefire ending a brief Iran-Israel war, international media remains focused on conflict, ignoring Iran’s worsening environmental crisis. Severe drought, subsidence, pollution, and mismanagement threaten millions, yet coverage remains minimal outside Persian-language and reformist outlets

BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao accused the Congress government of criminal negligence in handling Telangana’s irrigation crisis. He alleged that the failure to utilize the Kaleshwaram project and repair key infrastructure has left farmers in distress across the State.

The Minister laid the foundation for the construction of Jyotiba Phule Residential Agriculture Degree College for Women at Mugdumpur on Friday.

The Karnataka government said it will take a final call on the prevailing drought situation in the state after getting the ‘ground truthing report' and pass an appropriate order.

The Tamil Nadu government has declared six districts of the state as drought affected.

B Vinod Kumar informed that there would not be any problem for irrigable water if the continuous drought prevailed for three consecutive years also in the state.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK found that even a modest temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius will spell serious consequences in India, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Brazil and Egypt.

The UN agency said the new arrivals have been observed in the Bay region (29 per cent) and Banadir region (28 per cent), followed by the Bari region (12 per cent) and Gedo region (10 per cent).

Longquan (China):  Hundreds of persimmon trees that should be loaded with yellow fruit lie wilted in Gan Bingdong’s greenhouse in southwestern China, adding to mounting farm losses in a scorching summer that is the country’s driest in six decades. Gan’s farm south of the industrial metropolis of Chongqing lost half its vegetable crop in heat […]

London: Across Europe, drought is reducing once-mighty rivers to trickles, with potentially dramatic consequences for industry, freight, energy and food production – just as supply shortages and price rises due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine bite, local media reported. Driven by climate breakdown, an unusually dry winter and spring followed by record-breaking summer temperatures and […]

New Delhi: Crop nutrients determine the nutritional content and vigour of crops. The deficiency or occurrence below the minimum level of any of the nutrients is often seen as a cause of poor growth or complete crop failure. A study has found that farm practice based on traditional knowledge was better than chemical-intensive systems in […]

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The report said that disaster management agencies "are fighting an uphill battle against" an ever-rising tide of extreme weather events.