Overall Green alert Drought for Central USA-2021
in United States

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 14 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1015088
Name: Central USA-2021
Countries: United States
Start Date: End of Oct 2023
Duration: 179 days
Impact: Minor impact for agricultural drought in 130787 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Articles: 999 | About casualties: 33 | Last hour: 1

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Study rules out human factor in southern Africa drought2024-04-20T08:34+0200.

The study called for drought preparedness regionally to mitigate its effects. The latest research titled, El Niño key driver of drought in highly vulnerable Southern African countries, was done under the World Weather Attribution group and
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Original Research Accepted on 19 Apr 2024 Soil Amendment Mitigates Mor ... 2024-04-20T07:03+0200.

Mortality of tree species around the globe is increasingly driven by hotter drought and heat waves. Tree juveniles are at risk, as well as adults, and this will have a negative effect on forest dynamics and structure under climate change. N
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),