drought

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rania Dagash-Kamara, UNICEF's Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, about the crisis of food insecurity in Somalia as a result of extreme drought.

The drought has meant a smaller than usual pumpkin crop in Texas this year. Farmers say that drop in supply will mean higher prices for pumpkins popular for fall display and Halloween carving.

The National Weather Service reported the average mean temperature for this summer was 88.1 degrees, nudging out the 88 degrees recorded in summer of 2011.

There's something different happening with plants’ response to this year’s drought in Texas. TPR contributor Daniel Ramirez spoke with woodland ecologist Karl Flocke of the Texas A&M Forest Service to find out what he's noticing.

The Rio Grande Valley is the only region where producers expect to harvest what they planted.

Despite record-setting downpours in some areas of Texas offering temporary relief to scorched parts of the state, drought conditions persist in some of the hardest-hit areas.

A months-long drought in Texas has at least one town trucking in water for residents. Ranchers are facing tough business decisions without enough water for their cattle.

New federal forecasts show the nation's two largest reservoirs on the river are expected to continue their rapid decline — putting the water supply for 40 million people in the southwest in jeopardy.

A rainy weekend across the Texas-Mexico border region provided little relief to the dangerously depleted International Reservoirs in the region.

Two county judges in the Rio Grande Valley issued declarations of disaster this week in response to the increasingly severe water shortage and ongoing drought in the region.