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Drought

August 2026

  • Stone cairns line the exposed Danube riverbed with the Hungarian Parliament Building across the water

    Lost income, energy fears and a woolly mammoth: what Europe’s dried-up rivers have yielded

    Heat and drought have affected shipping, power plants and tourism across eastern Europe – as well as unearthing some surprises

July 2026

  • People wade through a flooded street and a man pushes a stalled motor rickshaw

    India’s monsoon rains in danger as UN chief warns planet is ‘on fire’

  • A member of emergency services in a hi-vis jacket walks across a scorched stretch of ground

    Wildfire near Sizewell nuclear plant causes ‘total devastation’ to Suffolk landscape

  • Tim Young stoops down amid his onion crops

    ‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

  • Green playing fields behind fence with sign reading: 'No trespassing. Private property beyond this point'

    ‘It’s all right for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans

  • Record low water levels across Europe reveal mammoth skeletons and forgotten shipwrecks – video

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  • Race to extinguish blazes across Europe as fire weather breaks records

  • A rain festival with no rain: the Indian farmers bracing for a ‘super’ El Niño as monsoon arrives late

  • Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought

  • More disruption to rail services in England as heatwave shrinks soil

  • Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Why Europe’s wildfires are proving so fierce and difficult to stop

  • Aid cuts
    Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger

  • ‘Without us, they are doomed’: volunteers save fish from French rivers drying up in heatwaves

  • Parts of England under heat alert with 30C temperatures possible

  • Drought declared in parts of Wales as July on course to be driest in nearly 200 years

  • Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on drought-hit Britain – cartoon

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone?

  • Thames Water joins hosepipe ban as England and Wales approach drought status

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Prickly pears, avocados and lemons: how rainwater harvesting is feeding Mexico City’s gardens and homes

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