{"id":23853,"date":"2022-04-05T22:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=23853"},"modified":"2022-04-05T22:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T02:36:04","slug":"some-recent-stories-on-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/04\/some-recent-stories-on-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Some recent stories on drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While most of the Southeast is not currently in a drought, dry conditions and drought are a natural part of climate, so it is not surprising that droughts are currently affecting other parts of the world now. Here are some recent stories on drought I have read that may interest you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>National Geographic<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/the-drought-in-the-western-us-could-last-until-2030\">The drought in the western U.S. could last until 2030<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Euro News<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2022\/02\/13\/climate-change-induced-extreme-winter-drought-devastates-crops-in-spain-and-portugal\">Climate change-induced extreme winter drought devastates crops in Spain and Portugal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Columbia University News<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.climate.columbia.edu\/2022\/02\/09\/simultaneous-droughts-could-threaten-global-food-security-says-study\/\">Simultaneous Droughts Could Threaten Global Food Security, Says Study<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physics Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-01-scientists-widespread-drought-21st-century.html\">Scientists warn of widespread drought in the 21st century<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/hoover-dam-drought.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/hoover-dam-drought.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/hoover-dam-drought.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/hoover-dam-drought-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/hoover-dam-drought-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the Southeast is not currently in a drought, dry conditions and drought are a natural part of climate, so it is not surprising that droughts are currently affecting other parts of the world now. Here are some recent stories on drought I have read that may interest you. National Geographic: The drought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23854,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions\/23854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}