drought
Farmers in Romania are struggling to keep their cattle, following an ongoing drought making it hard for them to provide animals with feed. In the southern county of Olt, farmer Traian Gîrtan has sold some of his 30-strong livestock. Gîrtan told Euronews that feeding his cattle costs €1000 a month, up from previous years. "The feed is almost double what it was last year. And how is the price of livestock now? The price of livestock is 30 to 40 percent lower than a year ago” said Gîrtan. In order to keep his farm alive over winter, Gîrtan predicts he will sell half of his cattle. Representatives...
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The Southern African region is suffering from an extreme drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon. Its impact on the 2023-24 farming season has left an estimated 56.8 million people struggling to find food. A report by ActionAid has found that, as a consequence, families have been forced to marry off daughters in exchange for food. “It is time to prioritise young women’s protection in the face of the devastating impacts of an ongoing El Nino-induced drought,” the charity said ahead of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government. ‘A...
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Romanian farmers are struggling to work their land as drought grips their nation, creating worry around the quality of their soil both in the short term and in the coming years. In Olt, in the southwest of Romania, farmers say that given the condition of the soil, they can’t even prepare it for autumn crops. They also say they are facing significant financial losses due to damage inflicted on their crops by the drought. Farmers have requested substantial financial support from the Romanian Minister of Agriculture so that they can continue to tend the land. Some say this can even come in the fo...
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A top humanitarian charity has revealed how climate change is dealing a “double blow” to life-saving aid attempts, as it simultaneously multiplies health risks and makes humanitarian interventions more challenging and complex to implement. In a new report, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has revealed how humanitarian workers and communities are managing to adapt to the many and complex challenges of climate change. Much is known about the ill effects of the climate crisis on human health, but relatively little attention has been paid to the issues facing aid workers helping those who are suffer...
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Intense heat in Hungary has led to severe droughts which, in turn, has caused serious damage to the country's agriculture. Hungary is continuing to suffer under an extreme heatwave, with some areas reaching up to 40 degrees Celsius. Third level heat alerts have been issued across the country, which will remain in effect until Sunday night. This, mixed with a lack of rainfall, has caused the soil to dry out, damaging corn, sunflower and sugar beet plantations. According to the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, the areas damaged by drought reach 75,000 hectares, but this is growing by several te...
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In Romania, the Danube River is the latest victim of the unprecedented summer heat, with the water levels shrinking to the point of jeopardising normal traffic. At points, current water levels are 6 cm below the normal range, with roughly 2,900 cubic metres of water flowing per second — well below the August average of 4,600 cubic metres per second. the head of Romania's Danube navigation sector, Ioan Neacșu, told Euronews that this is becoming the new normal for the drought-stricken area, with sailors adjusting their travel paths to accommodate shallow depths. Residents of the Romanian villag...
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Romania is suffering from the effects of one of the worst heat waves in the country’s history. In July, temperatures exceeded 40 degrees Celsius and that extreme heat is still causing issues for many - not least farmers, especially those who grow sunflowers and corn. July’s heat wave destroyed the majority of many of these farmers’ crops - and now they say they are expecting losses of around 90%. "If in a good year, let's say, we made somewhere around 2500-3000 kg per hectare this year we hope to reach 1000 kilograms, although from what we can see here, we will certainly not reach that,” Dumit...
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Residents in Sicily, Italy, have been described as "resilient" in the face of water scarcity — but their patience with this year's shortages is running out. Heavy rationing is in place across 93 communities, which means faucets run dry according to a timetable. Citizens of Agrigento, one of the most affected areas where the water only runs every 15 days, took to the streets on 3 August shouting "We want water". The protest attracted around 1,500 people - a higher number of attendees than the first protest on 3 June. "We constantly worry about having enough water for essential daily activities,...
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An ongoing heatwave has led to severe drought in some parts of Romania, with a number of lakes drying up and countless crops dying or being damaged. In the country’s southern Galati county it hasn’t rained for three months, causing the Talabasca lake to be almost entirely deprived of water. Local residents have expressed their alarm at the situation, with a number bemoaning the fact the country has barely seen rain for so long. "It is very bad what is happening, if no one doesn’t stand up [sic], this country will be a desert pretty soon,” one local man fears. Romania is also expected to see si...
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A huge reserve of fresh water has been discovered hidden beneath Sicily’s Iblei Mountains. The vast freshwater reserve is believed to contain around 17 billion cubic metres of water and is between 700 and 2,500 metres below the surface. It could hold the key to solving Sicily’s ongoing drought, one of the worst in Europe. “It’s a very important study which could be fundamental to solving a problem that is putting Sicily in serious difficulty,” says Professor Lorenzo Lipparini, researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). “According to our calculations, there could...
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