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Hot weather hurts Asian crops as powerful El Nino takes shape

El Nino-driven dryness is a double blow for farmers already grappling with fertiliser and diesel shortages caused by the Iran war

Rangpur farmers achieve record Aman rice harvest this season, enjoying high yields and strong market prices. Photo: BSS

Farmers produce 20-lakh tonnes clean Aman rice in Rangpur region

Insufficient rainfall during the monsoon season in Bangladesh, caused by El Niño, profoundly impacts rain-fed staple crop production. Photo: Sikder Ahmed

Iran begins cloud seeding operations as severe drought bites

A drone view shows the receding waterline and exposed lakebed in the dried basin of Turkmenli Dam, as drought conditions continue to affect water levels, in Marmara Ereglisi, in the northwestern Tekirdag province, Turkey, August 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Drought depletes Turkey's Tekirdag reservoirs, forcing emergency water curbs

A woman buys a sheep at a livestock market, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in the Moroccan city of Oujda September 11, 2016. Photo:REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal/File Photo

Drought-hit Morocco asks citizens not to slaughter sheep on Eid al-Adha

PKSF Chairman Zakir Ahmed Khan. Photo: PKSF

PKSF chairman urges implementation of long-term interventions to combat drought in Barind

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan spoke at the Ministerial Dialogue on Drought Resilience titled “From Geneva to Riyadh and Beyond: Enhancing Global and National Policy Instruments for a Proactive Drought Management Approach” today (2 December). Photo: UNB

Rizwana urges urgent global action on drought, degradation

A drone view shows the house and boat of fisherman Janderson Lima Oliveira, affected by the drought of Solimoes River in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil September 14, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Brazil's Amazon drought disrupts residents' lives

Joao Mendonca, a river dweller and the leader of community, carries water gallons on the sandbanks of the Madeira river to bring to the isolated region of Paraizinho community, during the worst drought of the river in history, Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil September 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Amazon rivers' low water levels bring fresh challenges for locals

Lilian Ramos, 33, feeds fish as part of a fish farming project by the UN's World Food Program to combat malnutrition in a region known as the Central American Dry Corridor, in San Agustin Acasaguastlan, Guatemala August 22, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Josue Decavele

As drought breeds hunger in Guatemala, farming program aims to help

A resident collects water from a tank as tap water has been declared undrinkable as a result of the drought in Teulada, Alicante, Spain, August 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Eva Manez/File Photo

In Spain's drought-hit Costa Blanca, people queue for bottled water

A woman serves traditional porridge at a rural home, as Zimbabwe is experiencing an El Nino-induced drought, resulting in malnutrition among children under the age of five, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescents, in Kotwa in Mudzi district, Zimbabwe July 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Nearly 68 million suffering from drought in Southern Africa: SADC

Cracks run through the partially dried-up river bed of the Gan River, a tributary to Poyang Lake during a regional drought in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, China, August 28, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

Flooding hits China's south, temperatures sizzle elsewhere