#droughts

[mindblowingscience]

Major droughts linked to ancient Indus Valley Civilization's collapse

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings may help explain why this major ancient civilization—a contemporary of ancient Egypt located around the modern India-Pakistan border—slowly declined, and highlights how environmental factors could shape ancient societies.

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Nova Scotia’s provincewide ban on entering the woods was unreasonable, court rules | Globalnews.ca

A Nova Scotia judge says the province’s 2025 ban on entering the woods during wildfire risk was unreasonable for failing to consider Charter

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge says the provincial government made an unreasonable decision last year when it banned most people from entering the woods to prevent wildfires during an extreme drought. In a decision released Friday, Justice Jamie Campbell said the provincewide ban imposed on Aug. 5, 2025, did not meet the standard for reasonableness because the province failed to consider the impact on Charter rights. “It was not a fleeting or insignificant restriction,” Campbell wrote. “It substantially affected peoples’ lives.” The ban prohibited “entry into the woods for the purposes of travelling, camping, fishing or picnicking or any other purpose, without a valid travel permit in all counties in Nova Scotia.”

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[cgandrews3]

Life Goes On in Earth's Most Extreme Environments

Previously unknown life-forms are being found all around us. But life on Earth is now facing unprecedented threats. Luckily, it almost alway

[thatpollguy]

Do you live in a region where droughts happen frequently?

Yes

No, but I used to

No

Voting ended onDec 21, 2025

[polposting]

So, last week in Warsaw we had an all-time low water level in Wisła, the main river of Poland — in some places it was only 20 cm deep

(usually it's between 2-7 m, depending on a time. Again, normally when the water levels are low they are still 10 times higher)

So! Warsaw has a drought, the summer was hot and now we have a big flood at the south of the country. Nothing weird about that, what do you mean there is a climate change? /s

(We also had ~7 tornados this weekend but I genuinely don't know if that's a lot, internet says that apparently we usually get like 15 a year)

I heard that the this flood is comparable or will be even worse than the Millennium Flood, but hopefully the water won't get too far because of the new Racibórz Dolny reservoir. Let's hope it lasts and reduces the further demages... Otherwise Wrocław and Opole are fucked

(Not that that would help Stronie Śląskie where the dam has already burst and made the town impossible to get to. The videos from there are awful)

And, yknow, I think I prefer droughts+floods over wildfires in terms of climate change side effects but still it would be great if all those things just. Didn't happen. Every year we hear about droughts and record-breaking low levels of rivers and heatwaves and other anomalies—

And sure we do make steps forwards but it's like pulling out teeth. I wonder if it will influence the conversation around climate change in the following months or if the first snow this winter will make people forget (if we will get snow of course)

[awesomecooperlove]

WHY THE GOV. ALLOWING CHEMTRAIS TO BLOCK THE SUN?

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[funnythingsidk]

hi. it’s currently 10pm and i have school tomorrow after not having it for a full week. and i’ve just watched a documentary with my parents abt extreme weather, which repeatedly mentioned the effects of global warming. zero reaction. zero care other than “oh my god i feel so bad for these people”.

i absolutely love my parents with the bottom of my heart but what the fuck. like actually. and ok i get it, not fully understanding is fine, but if your reaction is to feel bad and yet simultaneously say “it’s been happening for years, it’s not like it’ll affect much now”, then i dont know what to say to convince you that this is happening now and right in front of your faces.

water levels are rising, droughts are getting worse, fire weather is getting worse, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, mud slides — everything you could possibly think of — is getting worse. and i really really have no idea how to stress this because yes, it has been happening for a long time; yes, it should be a slow process. but it’s happening now. it’s happening right now. it’s caught up with us. and i don’t mean this as like “ohoh let’s get political”. i mean it as in weather patterns are shifting, and scientists have warned people and warned people, just to get ignored again.

this extreme weather is on the rise because it’s getting warmer. there is literally no other way to explain it. i can’t sugar coat it enough for you. the people you feel so bad for and that are losing their lives and their homes are losing it because the weather is rapidly changing, and it’s been completely ignored by anyone other than people with their heads screwed, the scientists who have warned us for years, or kids who are being actively shown that “oh, this is bad actually”.

im just honestly so fucking done. this is a whole rant post nobody wants to see but i cannot stress this enough to them. even a documentary over extreme weather, scientifically explaining how climate change causes it, can’t open people’s minds. it’s insane.

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

Because of global warming our future looks sober. This is what it will look like.

An article from 2007 which gives an overview of the devastation and horror we’ll face if we don’t stop using fossil fuels.  

Where no refuge is available, civil war and a collapse into racial or communal conflict seems the likely outcome. Isolated survivalism, however, may be as impracticable as dialling for room service. How many of us could really trap or kill enough game to feed a family? Even if large numbers of people did successfully manage to fan out into the countryside, wildlife populations would quickly dwindle under the pressure. Supporting a hunter-gatherer lifestyle takes 10 to 100 times the land per person that a settled agricultural community needs. A large-scale resort to survivalism would turn into a further disaster for biodiversity as hungry humans killed and ate anything that moved. Including, perhaps, each other. Invaders do not take kindly to residents denying them food. History suggests that if a stockpile is discovered, the householder and his family may be tortured and killed. Look for comparison to the experience of present-day Somalia, Sudan or Burundi, where conflicts over scarce land and food are at the root of lingering tribal wars and state collapse.

The Statue of Liberty in New York will be gone and so will the city.  

Cities and towns around the world will be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels and mega-storms.  Saltwater will penetrate deeply into continents destroying the few fresh water supplies remaining.  Heat domes will linger for months with countless thousands killed by the intense heat, torrential rivers of precipitation will create flooding so severe it will erase the places and the people who live there, and billions will die from starvation.  

Greed, selfishness and the reckless pursuit of profits over people is killing planet Earth and all of us along with it.