In Spain the water reservoirs along the Tagus River, which empty into the Atlantic near Lisbon, were as of Monday at just 39.3 percent of their capacity. The levels were even lower in the Douro River further north and the Segura River, which is used to irrigate crops in southeastern Spain....
a significant change (medium to high confidence) toward increasing agricultural and hydrological drought frequency is observed in the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean has also been marked as a hotspot region for climate change in several recent studies [e.g.,7,8]. Evidence from ...
Subscribe to ad-free Extreme and protracted drought threatens way of life in southern Spain Thur 6 Jul 7.15pm•Campaigners have warned that the way products like mangoes and avocadoes are farmed - many of them for export to the UK - will have to change. ...
The mostly semi銈況id climate characteristics of the Jucar River Basin District (JRBD), in Spain, together with high water exploitation indexes and high spatial and temporal precipitation variability, place this region among the areas most vulnerable to drought in the Mediterranean and the south of...
Consequently output of both peaches and pears in Spain during 2003 are expected to show a substantial increase on last year, according to a recent report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Latest forecasts from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture suggest that the domestic peach crop ...
Drought is also gripping much of Europe, with conditions worsening in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Spain.
Groundwater management and politics are also interrelated through income and power disparities, as is shown in the case of the San Joaquin Valley (US) [74] and in southeastern Spain [60]. The Angas Bremer irrigation district (Australia) is a rare example of local collective action towards ...
Europe heatwave - latest: More than 2,000 evacuated from Spanish island The dry and hot conditions are fuelling the risk of wildfires, with the danger moderate or high across "most of Europe", and extreme in Spain and Portugal. But the drought has struck differently in the south to the ...
In Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece, coastal resorts are swallowing up water that once moistened the wilderness. Many farmers in those countries still flood their fields instead of using more miserly "drip irrigation," and the resulting shortages are slowly baking the life out of the land. The...
Massive wildfires in Portugal and Spain were largely under control Thursday after forcing thousands from their homes and destroying large swathes of land. Can dog dance?The video shows that a girl is dancing with her clever...