Australia is prone to drought partly because of its geography. Our continent spans the latitudes of the subtropical high pressure belt. This is an area of sinking, dry, stable air and usually clear ...

Drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period when the amount of available water is insufficient to meet our normal use. Drought is not simply low rainfall; if it was, much of inland Australia would ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Young mums are running out of water and farmers are on the brink as one state battles widespread drought conditions ... are widespread across South Australia, from the Fleurieu in the south ...

The Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (MET) predicted a dry spell in some districts, but for some people in Traditional Authority Juma in Mulanje, the drought that ensued was ...