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Heliograph<p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FarmersAcrossBorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FarmersAcrossBorders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Need4Feed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Need4Feed</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/need-for-feed-australia-truck-convoy-nullarbor-drought-relief/105575462" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/nee</span><span class="invisible">d-for-feed-australia-truck-convoy-nullarbor-drought-relief/105575462</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'A despicable disgrace': <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BobGeldof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BobGeldof</span></a> condemns <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> over <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> hunger</p><p>Updated / Friday, 25 Jul 2025 </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiveAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiveAid</span></a> founder Bob Geldof has condemned the Israeli government's role in the Gaza crisis, calling it 'a despicable disgrace' and saying it is deliberately <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StarvingChildren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarvingChildren</span></a>.</p><p>" 'Their government is clearly out of control, and their army probably as well… It is a despicable disgrace. And for the Israeli people to allow this in their name is a despicable disgrace,' he told Prime Time.</p><p>" 'It is so utterly bizarre that we're talking about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a>, given the horror of their own past. It is bewildering to me,' he said.</p><p>" 'I was the founding patron of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AegisTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AegisTrust</span></a> for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenocideStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenocideStudies</span></a>, which is a branch of the British National <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HolocaustMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HolocaustMuseum</span></a>. I spent many times with the survivors of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a>' he told presenter Miriam O’Callaghan, 'were they alive now? They would possibly die of shame. The shame of this, Miriam, the shame for Israel... This is unconscionable.'</p><p>"His comments come amid escalating warnings from UN agencies about catastrophic levels of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/starvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starvation</span></a> in Gaza.</p><p>"Earlier, Louise Wateridge, a senior emergency officer with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNRWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNRWA</span></a>, described the situation on the ground as 'completely unbearable,' with people stepping over bodies at aid centres in desperate searches for food.</p><p>"She said more than 6,000 aid trucks - half carrying essential food and medical supplies - are currently blocked just outside Gaza by Israeli restrictions.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNICEF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNICEF</span></a> also warned that ongoing bombardment and mass displacement have rendered large parts of Gaza inaccessible for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/humanitarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanitarian</span></a> operations, with basic health and nutrition services near collapse.</p><p>"Mr Geldof appeared on Prime Time after a report featuring footage and images taken in recent days of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malnourished" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malnourished</span></a> and hungry children in Gaza.</p><p>"In the report, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxfam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxfam</span></a> aid worker <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BushraKhalidi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BushraKhalidi</span></a> described the actions of Israel as '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollectivePunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollectivePunishment</span></a>,' while <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarolineWilleman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarolineWilleman</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DoctorWithoutBorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoctorWithoutBorders</span></a>, speaking from northern Gaza, told Prime Time that she had never witnessed anything like what she was seeing currently during her career.</p><p>"She described how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> colleagues who are caring for sick and dying children are themselves unable to feed themselves or their own children.</p><p>" 'We are witnessing a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>,' Ms Willeman said, 'we are witnessing a genocide because we are witnessing people from whom food is being upheld, from whom water is being upheld.'</p><p>" 'It literally is beyond our comprehension. Look at your face, look at the aid workers there,' Mr Geldof said, 'What are we living in? I cannot look at those pictures. Obviously, they remind me of 1984, but in completely different circumstances.'</p><p>"Between 1983 and 1985 a major <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>famine</span></a> erupted in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ethiopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethiopia</span></a> as a result of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> and conflict. Footage in the news media drove Mr Geldof and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MidgeUre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MidgeUre</span></a> to found <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BandAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BandAid</span></a> in 1984 to raise funds for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FamineRelief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FamineRelief</span></a> initiatives.</p><p>"A year later, Live Aid, a two-event concert performed simultaneously in the UK and US was held. It featured some of the most famous music acts in the world at the time."</p><p><a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/0724/1525255-a-despicable-disgrace-geldof-condemns-israel-over-gaza-hunger/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/072</span><span class="invisible">4/1525255-a-despicable-disgrace-geldof-condemns-israel-over-gaza-hunger/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndGazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndGazaGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BibiIsAWarCriminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndTheBlockade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheBlockade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a></p>
Denise Gutzmer<p>Hadrian’s 2,000-year-old aqueduct returns to life in drought-hit Athens</p><p>Athens is reviving Hadrian’s Aqueduct – an ancient Roman water system built around 140 C.E. – to address modern water shortages caused by prolonged drought and climate pressures, according to smithsonianmag.gr</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/aqueduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aqueduct</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Athens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Athens</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://greekherald.com.au/news/hadrians-2000-year-old-aqueduct-returns-to-life-in-drought-hit-athens/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greekherald.com.au/news/hadria</span><span class="invisible">ns-2000-year-old-aqueduct-returns-to-life-in-drought-hit-athens/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, when I first saw this headline, I thought it was about the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> making <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> staffing cuts. Nope! It's the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>! And this has been going on for a while now!</p><p>Thousands of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverPollution</span></a> tests cancelled because of staff shortages</p><p>by Jonah Fisher, July 24, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "Staffing problems are nothing new at the EA. In 2023 its chairman Alan Lovell told parliament that it had 'struggled with recruitment and retention of staff'.</p><p>"Internal emails obtained by campaign groups <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Desmog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Desmog</span></a> through freedom of information requests were shared with the BBC. They show EA officials discussing the impact of staff departures on testing and saying that others planned to leave. </p><p>"One senior official, writing an email to her colleagues, said it was 'not good news I'm afraid' adding 'this isn't where we want to be (again)'.</p><p>"Helen Nightingale, who worked at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentAgency</span></a> as a catchment planner, analysing data from its water quality programme until 2022, says that while she was there she saw a shift of focus away from serious investigation to trying to find 'successes'.</p><p>"She also said that morale was low: "The pay is not great – we didn't have pay rises for years due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a>. </p><p>" 'But a lot people are in it [the EA] because they want to make a difference – and when you're not even getting that - well, what's the point?'</p><p>"Documents seen by the BBC show that the work affected by the cuts to testing this year included investigations into the water industry in various parts of the country, and monitoring of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectedAreas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectedAreas</span></a> including the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverWye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverWye</span></a>, which is currently facing a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> crisis linked to intensive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChickenFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChickenFarming</span></a>." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24xy8zgp4o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cx24xy8z</span><span class="invisible">gp4o</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/o15LD" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/o15LD</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterMonitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterMonitoring</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FactoryFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FactoryFarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterLevels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sewage</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>New today: We Texans keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. We are not going to change this narrative until we change our view of climate change and of living and developing in the floodplain. </p><p>Our climate is changing and our rainfall patterns—and drought patterns—are proving it repeatedly. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/flooding-houston-hill-country-planning/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/flooding-hou</span><span class="invisible">ston-hill-country-planning/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flooding</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TexasFloods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TexasFloods</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a></p>
Denise Gutzmer<p>Dryness developed in pockets of the Southeast, while drought eased in Arizona and Texas. Changes were mixed in the central and northern parts of the US. Drought shrank minutely to cover 31.38% of the contiguous US, down 0.03 points from last week.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DroughtMonitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DroughtMonitor</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Current</span><span class="invisible">Map.aspx</span></a></p>
Drought Center<p>ICYMI: Drought's impact on ag in the Southeast, SW drought expected to continue for decades, benefits of solar panels to grasslands -- all in this month's Dry Horizons. </p><p><a href="https://drought.unl.edu/Publications/DryHorizons.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drought.unl.edu/Publications/D</span><span class="invisible">ryHorizons.aspx</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/droughtmonitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughtmonitor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought2025</span></a></p>
Drought Center<p>Join the CMOR Challenge during the 2025 growing season! Share reports and photos every week showing how wet or dry conditions are in your area. go.unl.edu/cmor_drought <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/droughtmonitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughtmonitor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought2025</span></a></p>
Drought Center<p>Weather in the week leading up to July 22 brought scattered improvements across the country, mostly to the Midwest, Plains, Arizona and southwest Texas. But dryness and drought expanded in the Southeast and northern Plains.</p><p>See more change maps: <a href="https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/ChangeMaps.aspx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/Ch</span><span class="invisible">angeMaps.aspx</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/droughtmonitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughtmonitor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought2025</span></a></p>
Drought Center<p>US Drought Monitor 7-24-25</p><p>For the 50 states and Puerto Rico, the US Drought Monitor shows 26.31% in moderate drought or worse, compared to 26.65% last week.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/droughtmonitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughtmonitor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/drought2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought2025</span></a></p>
Tillman Reuter<p>Learn about my current project investigating **tree-hydraulic architecture**.<br>Joining the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://academiccloud.social/@unigoettingen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>unigoettingen</span></a></span> departments Plant Ecology and Ecosystem Research, Bioclimatology, and Spatial Structures and Digitization of Forests we explore using <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Sapflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sapflow</span></a> of a forest tree and stand-based climate data how water distributes in the canopy. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hydrology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> stress <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/canopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canopy</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/LiDAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiDAR</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/treeclimbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>treeclimbing</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/plantscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plantscience</span></a></p>
Andrew Henry<p>‘</p><p>"A lot of what we're seeing right now is what was predicted in the climate change projections about ... 20 years ago," Dawe said.</p><p>"[We knew] the temperatures were going to be increasing in Newfoundland and Labrador, that stream flow was going to be lower, that waters were going to be warmer in the summer, that there would be less snowpack and it would be melting earlier."</p><p>‘<br><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-drought-1.7590557" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundlan</span><span class="invisible">d-labrador/nl-drought-1.7590557</span></a></p>
SnowyCA :vivaldi_red:<p>🐎 👩‍🌾 <br>We have to improve or we’ll die’: B.C. ranchers seek water solutions in long drought</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BC</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farming</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://cfjctoday.com/2025/07/23/we-have-to-improve-or-well-die-b-c-ranchers-seek-water-solutions-in-long-drought" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cfjctoday.com/2025/07/23/we-ha</span><span class="invisible">ve-to-improve-or-well-die-b-c-ranchers-seek-water-solutions-in-long-drought</span></a></p>
Denise Gutzmer<p>The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI) shows highest levels of vegetation stress in the Southwest, West, Southeast and northern Illinois.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/VegDRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VegDRI</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/vegetationstress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vegetationstress</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://vegdri.unl.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vegdri.unl.edu/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Desert Trail<p>The Mighty <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RioGrande" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RioGrande</span></a> at Central Avenue 7/22/25. This is not good. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/albuquerque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>albuquerque</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newmexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newmexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a></p>
Denise Gutzmer<p>“Hydroclimate Whiplash”: How Extreme Rainfall and Drought Are Linked</p><p>Multiple deadly flash flood events have occurred in the US in July, including those in Central Texas that killed over 130 people (27 of them children and counselors at Camp Mystic), the New York City metropolitan area where two people drowned in a submerged car, and in New Mexico and the DC area.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/flashflood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flashflood</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/flood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flood</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/hydroclimate-whiplash-how-extreme-rainfall-and-drought-are-linked/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/hydro</span><span class="invisible">climate-whiplash-how-extreme-rainfall-and-drought-are-linked/</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬<p>Southwestern <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> likely to continue through 2100, research finds<br>Southwestern <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> is experiencing a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/megadrought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megadrought</span></a> resulting in the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aridification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aridification</span></a> of the landscape, a decades-long drying of the region brought on by climate change and the overconsumption of the region’s <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>.<br>Using an ensemble of historical and future <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> models forecasting climate and precipitation patterns until 2100, they found that the PDO-like negative phase continues through this century.<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/southwestern-drought-likely-to-continue-through-2100-research-finds/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">7/southwestern-drought-likely-to-continue-through-2100-research-finds/</span></a></p>
Akshay<p>16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022:</p><p>“case studies…where the “effects are so obvious…that you don’t need a substantial, quantitative statistical analysis to see them. The people on the ground can see that this is what’s happening.” </p><p><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-times-extreme-weather-drove-higher-food-prices-since-2022/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">carbonbrief.org/mapped-16-time</span><span class="invisible">s-extreme-weather-drove-higher-food-prices-since-2022/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Heat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heat</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Farming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Farming</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a></p>
Andrew Henry<p>‘</p><p>Loni Jack, co-owner of Clegr Farms in Lake Francis, just south of the RM of St. Laurent, estimates she'll get barely a third of the canola she had planned to harvest. The same goes for wheat.</p><p>"We were able to get our crops in but there hasn't been any rain so the crops are not doing well at all," she said. "It's positive to have planted them, but if they're not going to grow, we're not going to make any money."</p><p>‘<br><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/AtmosphericEvaporativeDemand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtmosphericEvaporativeDemand</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/drought-agricultural-disaster-emergency-1.7588473" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/dr</span><span class="invisible">ought-agricultural-disaster-emergency-1.7588473</span></a></p>
Greengordon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CelloMomOnCars</span></a></span> </p><p>Wow. This is what <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> is doing. Adapt to this:</p><p>"The drought in the Southwestern U.S. is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond"</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a></p>