An area of vegetation can be seen among drought effected farmland in South Australia, Thursday. A pioneering Australian scheme to improve the management of water in the world’s driest inhabited continent is facing its 1st real test as an intensifying El Niņo threatens crops and builds tensions between farmers and environmentalists. An El Niņo, a warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific, is already causing drought and other extreme weather, affecting millions of people across parts of the world, and experts warn that the intensifying weather pattern could emerge as one of the strongest on record. |
