Drought intensifies in Australia

A three-year drought across much of Australia is getting worse and sending thousands of farmers to the financial brink.

Large agricultural areas in the states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania have only had 10 percent of their average annual rainfall since 2012.

Queensland has also endured its warmest March since records began in 1910, the Bureau of Meteorology announced on Wednesday.

Reduced monsoonal rain over summer in the Northern Territory, which helps generate rain in southern states, has also had an effect.
   Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
8/4/15
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