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UN: Droughts, less water in Europe as warming wrecks crops

By ARITZ PARRA and SERGIO RODRIGO, Associated Press
Published: March 2, 2022, 9:07am

LA HERRADURA, Spain — “Herders and farmers have their feet on the ground, but their eyes on the sky.” The old saying is still popular in Spain’s rural communities who, faced with recurrent droughts, have historically paraded sculptures of saints to pray for rain.

The saints are out again this year as large swaths of Spain face one of the driest winters on record.

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