droughts

Fires raged. Rivers flooded. Ice melted. Droughts baked. Storms brewed. Temperatures soared. And people died.

Californians rejoiced this week when big drops of water started falling from the sky for the first time in any measurable way since the spring.

The UN World Food Program says southern Madagascar is in the throes of back-to-back droughts that are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation