Three times more land in drought than in 1980s, study finds

BBCNyakuma and her husband Sunday, who live in a village in South Sudan, struggle to find food due to droughtThe area of land surface affected by drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed.Forty-eight per cent of the Earth’s land surface had at least one month of extreme drought last year, according to analysis by the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate…