Drought

The brutal drought that has gripped Australia is now forcing farmers off the land.

 Farmers in Jharkhand have written a letter to the President of India and the Governor, requesting them to grant permission to commit suicide. 

It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its

Wildfires, smoke and drownings are not the only impacts of the record-breaking heat gripping Russia.

Check out this news story from Al Jazeerah in Niger, North Africa. The worst drought in living memory has forced entire villages to be abandoned.

 The UN warns that an unprecedented drought in Niger is threatening 10 million people with starvation. Yieks... 

Thailand and Vietnam are the world's largest exporters of rice and many farmers there are finding it increasingly difficult to pay the bills due to erratic weather.

 Aid workers warn that 10 million people in West Africa are at risk from starvation due to a long-standing drought.

Starving people in drought-stricken west Africa are being forced to eat leaves and collect grain from ant hills, say aid agencies, warning that 10 million people face starvation.

 Check out his detailed report form Al Jazeera on the impacts of drought on Australia's breadbasket.