“Climate is impacting the life of Sicily very strongly,” says Gerardo Diana, a Sicilian farmer, as he gazes at his fields of wheat and beans, which have been completely decimated by a two-year drought ...

Rosario Li Puma scans drought-stricken hills where his family has planted wheat for generations. Photo taken September 24, 2024. (Cain Burdeau/Courthouse News Service) ALIMENA, Sicily (CN) — Standing ...

The Italian island of Sicily might have abundant history, but the same can’t be said about its water supply. Located on Sicily’s southwest coast, Agrigento is home to a prominent Greek monument—Valley ...

Global warming has fueled an exceptional drought on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, a new analysis finds. Over the last year, severe heat and meager rainfall have desiccated farmland, with ...

AGRIGENTO, Italy — Lakes are dry and fields are scorched by heat in Sicily, but water is still gushing copiously for tourists. After an almost totally rain-free year on the Italian island, fountains ...

In Sicily, record breaking heat threatens a cooling tradition that has been handed down for generations. Every year in late July, a small village hikes to a mountain chasm for snow to make granita.

The droughts which are crippling Sicily and Sardinia were made twice as likely by human-caused climate change. “Without the effects of human-caused warming, the droughts on both islands would not have ...

The deadly wildfires raging in Sicily in July put the effects of climate change on tourism into high relief, as thousands struggled to flee the island while firefighters took on what they estimated ...

Olive harvests once adhered to a ritual that picking only started after All Souls' Day. Today, climate, labor shortages and ...

A “violent storm” sank a luxury yacht off the northern coast of Sicily early Monday, according to local authorities, who said one person was dead and six people were missing. Divers had resumed ...

Every year in late July, a small village in Sicily hosts a hike to a chasm in a nearby mountain for a last taste of winter. There, they hope to find enough snow left over to make a granita, a slushy ...