Today, the lakes around Cape Town are brimming with water, but it was only a few years ago that South Africa’s second-most populous city made global headlines as a multi-year drought depleted its reservoirs, impacting millions of people. That kind of extreme event may become the...
Climate Change Means Cape Town’s ‘Day Zero’ Drought Won’t Be an Anomaly, Stanford Researcher Says
Using new high-resolution simulations, researchers suggest extreme drought events could become common in southwestern South Africa and other parts of the world with similar climates, like California
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