The central Sahel is facing a food security crisis due to the high vulnerability of the population to erratic rainfall.
Food crisis in Central Sahel in 2022 driven by chronic vulnerability with uncertain role of climate change
Drought
High temperatures exacerbated by climate change made 2022 Northern Hemisphere droughts more likely
Western Central Europe, North America, China, and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere faced water shortages, extreme heat, and soil moisture drought conditions throughout the summer of 2022
Factors other than climate change are the main drivers of recent food insecurity in Southern Madagascar
Southern Madagascar (the Grand Sud) is facing a deteriorating food security crisis, exacerbated by exceptionally low levels of rainfall over the last two years. In an area with 90% of the population living below the poverty line, this recent drought has contributed to tens of thousands facing severe famine-like conditions.
Likelihood of Cape Town water crisis tripled by climate change
The scientists with the WWA studied the effect of climate change on the lack of rainfall leading to the Cape Town Drought and found that it made the event about three times more likely.
Rapid analysis of drought in Somalia, 2016
A quickly deteriorating food security outlook in Somalia triggered international humanitarian appeals in 2016. In this analysis we investigate the roles of climate change and El Niño in the observed very low precipitation using both climate models and observational data.