Severe drought linked to the decline of the hobbits 61,000 years ago
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Luz Mayoral
December 28, 2025
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Italy’s government in early May declared a state of emergency for the southern island. A crushing drought in Sicily has withered fields of grain, deprived livestock of pasture land and fanned a spate of wildfires, causing damage already estimated at 2.7 billion euros this year. In an attempt to mitigate the effects of the water
The richness of skin bacteria is negatively correlated with Bd loads. Color and size correspond with Jaccard dispersion values. Shape indicates frog survival. Bd-negative samples have been excluded. Credit: Ecology Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1111/ele.14372 Pumpkin toadlets are in trouble. Progressively severe droughts are disrupting the microbiomes of the thumbnail-sized orange frogs, potentially leaving them vulnerable
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Drought occurrence and variations in human settlement patterns for representative countries within the UN subregions for Africa. Credit: Earth’s Future (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2023EF003510 In 80% of African countries, human settlements move toward rivers and into cities during drought, increasing the number of people living in flood-risk areas in recent decades, according to a recent study.