Sentences with phrase «affected by droughts»

Flood damage, too, could exceed $ 10bn a year by 2080, while the number of people affected by droughts could increase sevenfold, and coastal damage from sea level rise could treble.

The number of people affected by droughts could increase by a factor of seven and coastal damage, due to sea - level rise, could more than triple.

Areas that have seen the most population growth in the last decade and a half are also the most affected by drought.

Over the year, food prices rose by 4 1/2 per cent, with above - average price rises being recorded for a number of commodities affected by the drought.

This follows a period in which rural export earnings were adversely affected by drought, falling by almost 30 per cent since mid 2002.

The state will conduct on - site assessments of farms affected by the drought as well, Cuomo's office said.

From 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., state Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball tours four farms affected by drought in the Finger Lakes.

Her findings indicate that harvests in coastal regions of the northern Levant were little affected by drought; but further inland, drought lead to the need for irrigation or, in extreme cases, abandonment of the settlement.

They found that many settlements were affected by drought linked to major climate fluctuations.

The worldwide demand for legumes, one of the world's most important agricultural food crops, is growing; at the same time, their production has been adversely affected by drought.

In addition, their Mediterranean habitat has been affected by drought due to long - term climate change, and yields are falling while the global demand continues to rise.

They discovered that silver and Douglas firs are far less affected by drought than spruces.

Berdanier said that of the trees that were affected by drought and failed to recover, 72 percent were dead within the decade.

Officials fear the outbreaks could spread inland to devastate countries already affected by drought and civil war, unless urgent action is taken to control the locusts immediately.

Also, «water usage and water security are increasingly alarming problems,» especially considering approximately half of the cultivated surface of Earth is affected by drought, said Jocelyn Rose, the project's principal investigator (PI), a professor of plant biology and director of Cornell's Institute of Biotechnology.

This data should improve our understanding of how certain regions are affected by drought and help agricultural and water management communities better manage water use for agriculture.

The solution to the water crisis involves increased social participation, including the understandably critical voices of those affected by drought.

In a paper presented at the American Meteorological Society's annual meeting in San Diego, California, in January 2005, a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research reported a dramatic increase in the land surface affected by drought over the last few decades.

Higher temperatures diminish crop yields, melt the snow / ice reservoirs in the mountains that feed the earth's rivers, cause more - destructive storms, increase the area affected by drought, and cause more frequent and destructive wildfires.

The findings suggest that more of the Earth's land surface is being affected by drought now than it was a century ago and that recovery times are getting longer.

Compelling arguments both for and against significant increases in the land area affected by drought and / or dryness since the mid — 20th century have resulted in a low confidence assessment of observed and attributable large - scale trends.

Virtually every corner of California has been affected by the drought, from the forests of the southern Sierra Nevada to the state's northwest.

For three years, the vast majority of California has been affected by drought.

The recent report of the Global Humanitarian Forum led by Kofi Annan suggests that 325 million people are already seriously affected by drought, disease, floods, loss of livestock, low agricultural yields, and declining fish stocks.

The areas affected by drought have expanded in the last decades the most exposed being in southeast and most of the country was affected by long lasting dry period.

Panelist and former environmentalist Patrick Moore asks rhetorically, «Do you really think the terrorists in Paris were affected by a drought in Syria?»

It is no accident that those communities worst affected by the drought are not just those blighted by conflict, but also by decades of official neglect and contempt from governments, who see pastoralism as an unwanted relic of the past.

There has also been a dramatic increase in the land area affected by drought in recent decades.

Enhanced action and international cooperation on adaptation is urgently required to enstue the implementation of the Convention by enabling and supporting the implementation of adaptation actions aimed at reducing vulnerability and building resilience in developing countries, especially in those that are particularly vulnerable, especially least developed countries, small island developing States and tiuther taking into account the need of countries in Africa affected by drought, desertification and floods.

The relative contribution of fossil fuel combustion and biomass combustion to the global black carbon inventory is a matter of some dispute, which is also probably being affected by drought - correlated rise in global wildfires.

The initiative, announced by the Hon» ble Chief Minister in August 2016, aims to transform 1000 villages affected by drought or social challenges into model villages by 2018.

With funding from the Australian Government, we have responded to changing community needs resulting from external events, putting significant effort into supporting those affected by drought and bushfire during recent years,» he said.

An increasing number of services are tailored to the needs of specific groups, such as «Kidcare» and «Moorditj Yarning» for Aboriginal people, «Strength to Strength» for Humanitarian Entrants newly settled into Australia, «Men in Family Relationships» and a program for people affected by drought.

Not exact matches

«There are two loan types, Drought Assistance for drought — affected farm businesses and Dairy Recovery concessional loans to assist eligible farmers affected by the decisions of Murray Goulburn, Fonterra and National Dairy Products to retrospectively reduce farm gate milk prices.

Post-anaerobic treatment steps can also further increase water quality for extensive recycling, which is also becoming particularly relevant to countries and entire regions suffering drought or increasing affected by climate change, including South - Western USA, Australia, Africa, Southern Europe and South - Eastern and Eastern Asia.

Associated with the Parliament there will be a three - day multi-faith journey to the Murray River entitled «Walking humbly», which will engage with different communities affected by the Black Saturday bushfires and drought in Victoria's Murray - Darling Basin.

The Ministry says it has been able to provide enough water to the areas affected by the shortage as they look to deal with the drought which has caused the crisis.

They also are affected by the introduction of non-native plant species and natural disasters, from floods to drought.

They measured the growth and photosynthesis rates of trees at 13 rainforest plots across Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, comparing plots that were affected by the strong drought of 2010 with unaffected plots.

Taken together, the research data provides a picture, from the leaf scale to the global scale, suggesting that droughts in the Amazon basin are affecting levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere globally, both on a short - term basis though decreasing photosynthesis and on a longer term basis, by increasing tree mortality.

Researchers found that while the rate of photosynthesis was constant among trees on plots unaffected by drought, rates on the six drought - affected plots dropped significantly (as compared with before the 2010 drought).

Crops and livestock will be affected by flooding, drought and shifts in the timing of rainfall and temperature, but where and how these impacts will be felt is uncertain.

Because the effects of drought on legume production were found to be affected less by climatic regions and related more to legume species, the selection and promotion of drought - resistant legume species could provide an approach to minimize the impact of droughts.

The researchers performed a series of experiments before, during and after the drought to test how pressures from heavy grazing by crabs — the main natural enemy of plants in the protected marshes — affected resilience to and recovery from the drought.

It speaks eloquently of stewardship of God's creation and care for the poor, those already affected by the exacerbating impacts of climate change on droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather.

Coastal communities are being affected by rising seas, drought - prone areas are arid for longer periods and, as our report shows, infectious agents are taking advantage of these more extreme weather patterns.

The drought - affected people of East Africa did not receive international or domestic aid for six months, partly due to the risks posed by armed groups.

The report concludes that a warmer climate could affect U.S. residents both directly (through droughts, heat waves, and increasingly intense hurricanes) and indirectly (through greater incidence of disease transmitted by mosquitoes and other carriers, decreased air quality, and rising pollen counts).

Those most critically affected by the state's four - year drought are the Central Valley's farmers, whose livelihoods are threatened.

Byrne emphasized that the area's typical monsoon weather with wet summers and dry winters did not stop, but was interrupted by frequent short - term droughts, no doubt affecting crops and water supplies.