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• - Background information for journalists.
  
• - Maps providing monthly updated, distributed information on rainfall, actual evapotranspiration, radiation, drought and desertification indices, and crop yield forecasts for Africa and Europe, with methodology discussions.
  
• - Highlights the importance of paleoclimate research in providing information about past droughts and natural variability. Includes maps that display droughts of the various centuries.
  
• - Status and information on daily streamflow in the Pacific Northwest States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Links to other resources.
  
• - The National Drought Mitigation Center provides information to help people and institutions reduce vulnerability to drought, stressing prevention and risk management.
  
• - Map of U.S. drought conditions, including long-range temperature and preciptation outlooks.
  
• - A collection of sites related to drought and climate conditions in the United States (and some individual states). It includes current reports, outlooks, and indices used for drought and moisture monitoring .
  
• - CBC News reports on the drought of 2001 in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and other parts of Canada.
  
• - A comparison of a drought in a more economically developed area - Texas, and a drought in a less economically developed area - Sahel.