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Droughts Now Happening More Frequently

Boxes with old bottles of beers are photographed outside a store at the old village of Aceredo.
Boxes with old bottles of beers are photographed outside a store at the old village of Aceredo. Photo: Emilio Morenatti ( (AP))

Droughts are becoming more frequent thanks to climate change. In a bombshell report issued last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that extreme droughts that used to happen once a decade are occurring much more frequently.