Limits to the availability of key natural resources (such as land, food, water and oil) and climate change have been linked to social unrest and violent conflict. Analysis that ignores the reliance of society and the economy on natural resources underestimates the exposure to systemic risks.

This report is a component of the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS)–-funded project “Impacts of Climate Extremes on Future Water and Food Security in South Asia and East Africa.” The goal of the project was to characterize extreme drought events, to improve on a methodology to assess the probability of th

Climate change has its sights on its next victim, and it's one of America's favorite vacation spots.

Climate change is threatening to damage the cotton crops we need to make jeans, T-shirts, sweaters and other comfy clothing.

The climate change effect might eat up more than 27 per cent of the paddy yield in Bangladesh by 2050, experts said Wednesday.

Government auditors have taken a close look at a disputed calculation used by federal regulators to assess the long-term costs of carbon pollution. Their verdict: It was all done by the book.

SHIJIAZHUANG - Extended droughts have left 101,000 people in drinking water shortage in north China's Hebei Province, said provincial authorities on Thursday.

A package of bills aimed at regulating drought-parched California's stressed groundwater supplies has come under fire from agricultural interests, injecting doubt into the measures' fates in the wa

SHENYANG - Northeast China's Liaoning province is in the midst of the most severe drought since 1951, suffering huge damage to crops and threatening the local people's livelihood.

A prolonged drought in Brazil has already claimed about half of Jose Francisco Pereira’s coffee crop.

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