More than half of the continental United States was in moderate to extreme drought in June — including corn- and soybean-producing states — damaging crops and impacting prices at the grocery store.
Some say if the hot, dry weather continues, this year’s drought could rival the “dust bowl” years of the 1930s.
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Militants detonated a truck bomb in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu Tuesday, killing an estimated 70 people at the Ministry of Education.
Mogadishu, is considered one of the most dangerous, lawless cities in the world. Years of civil war have left the city in shambles.
More on the humanitarian situation, plus watch NewsHour for updates.
(PHOTO: Tahliil Hussan holds an X-ray that shows the bullet still lodged in his abdomen at the Forlanini Hospital on Sept. 11. He was caught in gunfire in Mogadishu and is receiving treatment from Gift of the Givers. FOTO24/GALLO IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES)
“…You see brown land that’s been burned up by the sun, or black land that’s been burned up by fire”
Wade Goodwyn of NPR tells Gwen Ifill on Wednesday’s NewsHour. Texas is in the worst year of drought in the state’s history.
From earlier in the month: The drought has had a huge impact on farmers in the Midwest.
Heat Widget: 4,808 high temperature records have been set this year in the U.S.
And more from Wade Goodwyn on the drought via NPR.
(Source: newshour.pbs.org)
More than 10 million people are desperately in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, the World Food Program estimated this week.
The situation in Somalia in particular is the “worst humanitarian disaster in the world,” the U.N. refugee agency said on Sunday.
Abshira Abdukadir, a four-year-old Somali girl suffering from severe diarrhea and having trouble breathing, is looked after by her parents hours after they finally reached a refugee camp in northeast Kenya and were able to get medical assistance for their ailing daughter on July 6, 2011. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
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