BEIJING, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- China has used cloud-seeding in an attempt to create rain in at least seven drought-stricken provinces, officials said.
BEIJING, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- China's Finance Ministry has set aside nearly $13 billion in reserves for drought relief, the government says.
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Chinese officials said Thursday the country's drought emergency alert should be raised to its highest level in response to devastating drought conditions.
ZHENGZHOU, China, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- China's major grain producing province of Henan has issued a red alert for drought, saying the current dry spell is the worst since 1951.
TAIYUAN, China, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Six northern and eastern Chinese provinces are suffering through prolonged droughts that have affected water supplies, officials say.
BEIJING, June 17 (UPI) -- Despite a widespread drought, 128 people have drowned in floods this year in China and 24 remain missing.
CHONGQING, China, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A drought caused by insufficient rainfall is approaching crisis proportions in and around the Chinese city of Chongqing.
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- China's drought, its worst in five decades, is spreading to other areas, causing more drinking water shortages, reports the official Xinhua news agency.
MADRID, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Spain's worst drought in nearly 60 years has dropped the nation's water reserves to below 40 percent of their normal level.
BEIJING, April 4 (UPI) -- Drought is threatening China's spring planting, which could affect crops that feed 9.38 million people and 8.9 million livestock, a state report says.
