NASA
A Drier Future Sets the Stage for More Wildfires
Droughts can create ideal conditions for wildfires. Dry trees and vegetation provide fuel. Low soil and air moisture make it easier for fires to spread quickly. In these conditions, a spark from lightning, electrical failures, human...
Sustainable Business Consulting
What is Business Resilience
Explanation of what resiliency means and how thinking in terms of sustainability can decrease risk in your organization
NASA
NASA | Megadroughts Projected for American West
NASA scientists used tree rings to understand past droughts and climate models incorporating soil moisture data to estimate future drought risk in the 21st century.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Wonders: What if You Woke Up Tomorrow and the Temperature was 2 Degrees Hotter?
Overview of the impact on Earth of an increase in global average temperature.
Curated Video
Understanding Drought: Causes, Implications, and Mitigation Strategies
A drought happens when there is significantly less rainfall than usual in an area. Discover why droughts happen and what can be done to mitigate the impact of a drought.
Mr. Beat
Will Las Vegas Run Out of Water?
Will the Colorado River dry up? Mr. Beat examines the dangers of cities like Las Vegas running out of water due to recent population growth and drought in the American Southwest.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Alaska
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: California
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: The Pacific Region
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Next Animation Studio
Heat and evaporation causing “irreversible” drying of Mongolia
Record high temperatures in the region are accelerated by soil drying, and together these changes are magnifying the decline of soil water.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Washington
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Oregon
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of the United States: Hawaii
This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Pacific Region of the United States. The individual states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii are presented in detail.
Press Association
Climate protesters call for global leaders to keep promises at Cop28
Interview with Zandisile Howe, Climate Action Network, at Cop28 in Dubai. Protest organised by Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, songs by Jesse David as part of the 'keep your promise' campaign.
Curated Video
Weather, Floods, Drought, Forest Fires
USSR (Mamawk)
Flowers
Street scene
(NE Siberia)
Soviet Merchant Fleet trapped in ice
The Leonid Brezhnev Icebreaker at work
(Var) Trapped ships
Canoeists under icebergs
Microlights navigating for canoeists
Flood scenes (various...
Curated Video
CAN718 EFFECTS OF DROUGHT DUE TO HALVED NORMAL RAINFALL
SHOWS1. ws dried up river bed 2. ws pan pan flock of sheep3. mcu shepherd4. ms sheep5. various mcu cracked earth6. ws orchard7. ms man breaking off dry branches8. mcu cracked earth surface 9. ws bare tree10. ws lush orchard11. ws orchard...
Curated Video
SYND 11-1-73 RHODESIA HAS BEEN SUFFERING FROM ITS WORST DROUGHT FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS
Over the past ten days, Rhodesia has been suffering from its worst drought for more than 30 years causing crop failure
1) gv Mcillwaine dam
2) sign:" Hunyani Poort Dam"
3) gv pan across dam to dry overspill
4) ms pan down dry...
Curated Video
SYND 4 8 74 EFFECTS OF DROUGHT IN THE MIDWEST
The effects of a drought in the Midwest of the US with sparse crops, dried ponds and cattle grazing.
1. ms man walks across dried pond
2. ws and pan of sky
3. mcu man digs into dry earth
4. mcu of tap pull out to show cattle grazing
5....
Curated Video
SYND 21 5 73 SEVERE DROUGHT CONDITIONS IN INDIA
The monsoon rains failed for the third successive year causing severe drought conditions in the Maharashtra region of India
1. travelling shot past dry landscape and brren trees
2. cu pan across crops in dry soil
3. cu cracked earth
4....
Curated Video
SYND 8 7 76 EFFECTS OF THE RECENT DROUGHT IN NORMANDY, FRANCE
As Europe faced its worst drought in generations, France on Thursday (July 8) appealed to its young people to go on a war footing against what President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has called a calamity. One of the worst hit areas is the...
Curated Video
SYND 30 6 67 DROUGHT HIT HONG KONG SELLS WATER DRUMS AND HOSEPIPES
Hong Kong faces a severe water shortage du e to adrought that has led to empty reservoirs and a ban upon swimming pools.
1. cu sign waterworks notice
2. ms dam, pan along to near empty resevoir
3. pn pan gorge with stream up to...
Curated Video
SYND 27 5 73 DROUGHT ENDANGERING CATTLE AND CROPS
Report of Drought endangering cattle and crops in the North African country of Chad
1. ls concrete bridge across river
2. ms tilt down bridge column with water depth measure on side
3. tilt across cracked earth
4. ms donkey standing on...
Curated Video
CAN405 DROUGHT IN SPAIN CONTINUES
Madrid continues to suffer from a serious drought. The low rainfall for autumn and winter months in the Madrid plain has brought about water rationing. The expansion of industry and the increased number of washing machines is claimed to...