Minister says decline in supply the result of environmental factors, high demand and over-exploitation of groundwater for farming, with reservoirs at just 11% of annual average
'They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the same time,' says a scientist as two regions both experience freakish extreme heat
As intergovernmental panel warns just a few tenths of a degree of warming may cause irreversible damage, UN chief says document is 'damning indictment of failed climate leadership'
Insurance Fund for Natural Risks in Agriculture paid out 5 times multi-year average to compensate fruit farmers whose crops didn't get a needed cold snap due to warm winter
High temperatures, strong easterly winds in potentially dangerous combination previously seen in 2010 and 2016; climatologist: 'Global warming is causing an increase in extremes'
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