Climate change impacts: Women in Sri Lanka often bearing the brunt of violence as increasingly frequent heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms exacerbate economic hardship
With drought and erratic rains depleting harvests, women farmers in Sri Lanka tell of beatings by husbands as incomes shrink. DIMUTHU ATTANAYAKE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Drought-hit Spanish town gets water trucked in as temperatures peak
Alcaracejos, Spain Reuters Residents of a small town in southern Spain gathered at the main square to collect drinking water as large swathes of the Iberian Peninsula braved unseasonally hot weather that have exacerbated a long drought. Meteorologists expected temperatures to hit almost 40 Celsius in some areas of Spain this week. A bird walks […]
“Hitting rock bottom” – drought, heat drain Spanish reservoirs
Cijara, Spain Reuters A flock of sheep shelter from the midday sun under the gothic arches of a medieval bridge flooded in 1956 to create the Cijara reservoir in central Spain, but now fully exposed as the reservoir is 84 per cent empty after a severe drought. In Andalusia, one of Europe’s hottest and driest […]