Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience

GG Haile, Q Tang, S Sun, Z Huang, X Zhang, X Liu - Earth-science reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
East Africa (EA) has been the primary focus for various drought studies in recent years.
However, a comprehensive analysis of droughts, including their evolution, complexity, social …

What do we know about water scarcity in semi-arid zones? A global analysis and research trends

F Morante-Carballo, N Montalván-Burbano… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water supply is strategic for the development of society. The water distribution in nature
follows patterns linked to geographic and territorial issues. Climate fluctuations aggravate …

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

F Yao, B Livneh, B Rajagopalan, J Wang, JF Crétaux… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth's
liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends and drivers of lake volume change remain …

Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes

G Zhao, Y Li, L Zhou, H Gao - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The evaporative loss from global lakes (natural and artificial) is a critical component of the
terrestrial water and energy balance. However, the evaporation volume of these water …

Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

DJ Beerling, EP Kantzas, MR Lomas, P Wade… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Enhanced silicate rock weathering (ERW), deployable with croplands, has potential use for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR), which is now necessary to mitigate …

Why the 2022 Po River drought is the worst in the past two centuries

A Montanari, H Nguyen, S Rubinetti, S Ceola… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The causes of recent hydrological droughts and their future evolution under a changing
climate are still poorly understood. Banking on a 216-year river flow time series at the Po …

The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability

Z Huang, X Yuan, X Liu - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has become a major issue to sustainable development. It can be estimated by
available fresh water resources and human water withdrawal, which are affected by both …

Limited influence of irrigation on pre-monsoon heat stress in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

R Jha, A Mondal, A Devanand, MK Roxy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hot extremes are anticipated to be more frequent and more intense under climate change,
making the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India, with a 400 million population, vulnerable to heat …

Irrigated areas drive irrigation water withdrawals

A Puy, E Borgonovo, S Lo Piano, SA Levin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A sustainable management of global freshwater resources requires reliable estimates of the
water demanded by irrigated agriculture. This has been attempted by the Food and …

Deceleration of China's human water use and its key drivers

F Zhou, Y Bo, P Ciais, P Dumas… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Increased human water use combined with climate change have aggravated water scarcity
from the regional to global scales. However, the lack of spatially detailed datasets limits our …