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Road collapse in northern Kenya due to flash floods on 22 November 2023. Photo by Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

East Africa must prepare for more extreme rainfall during the short rainy season – new study

Projections show that there’ll be Indian Ocean dipoles in the future – and that means more rainy days, and more extreme rainfall.
A flash drought in 2012 dried out soil, harming crops in Kansas and several other states. John Moore/Getty Images

Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major food-growing region in coming decades, new research shows

If greenhouse gas emissions continue at a high rate, breadbaskets of Europe and North America will see a 50% chance of a flash drought each year by the end of this century.

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