Overall Green alert Drought for Southeastern Mediterranean-2024
in Egypt, Israel, Libya

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 6 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016906
Name: Southeastern Mediterranean-2024
Countries: Egypt, Israel, Libya
Start Date: End of Nov 2023
Duration: 218 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 217507 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

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Sustainability Climate change is a global problem. UB students went ab ... 2024-06-19T01:14+0200.

Hours after Jonathan Navarro-Ramos arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a historic storm brought down more than a year’s worth of rainfall in a single day and essentially shut down large parts of the desert nation. His timing couldn’t
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A Drought May Have Caused the Bronze Age Collapse2024-06-18T03:03+0200.

Lion’s Gate, Mycenae. The Mycenaean Civilization was destroyed during the Bronze Age Collapse. Credit: Andreas Trepte/CC-BY-SA-2.5. Archaeologists and historians have long debated the cause of the “Bronze Age Collapse,” or the period when m
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Analytical report

23/Feb/2024 08:39 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),