South Africa has declared the drought which has seen Cape Town hurtling towards "Day Zero" a national disaster. The government made the announcement after reassessing the "magnitude and severity ...

the residents of Cape Town in South Africa rejoiced, thanked God and stood outside to feel the water on their skin. In the drought-hit city, Friday night's 8mm (0.3 inches) was long-desired.

A new map issued Thursday morning by the National Drought Mitigation Center shows an extreme drought now exists across all of Atlantic County and wide swaths of Burlington, Camden, Cape May ...

Nearly all of Massachusetts is in a critical drought — one step away from an emergency — after months with little rainfall, ...

A savvy social media campaign is a good start, but Cape Town’s tourism industry has a long road ahead to undo the damage from the worst drought in a century. That’s the message Cape Town’s ...