Sentences with phrase «at times of drought»

Nestlé has been particularly criticised for extracting water in California for the Arrowhead brand — promoted at the LA Marathon — at a time of drought and without a current licence.

Containing over 1,400 artifacts from the end of the Ancient Maya Empire that have lain undisturbed for more than a millennium, the ATM cave was once used by priests to conduct human sacrifices at a time of drought, warfare, and civil strife.

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«At the same time, we are rebuilding the resilience of communities, so that they can better cope in future droughts.

I think it was for a couple of reasons — partly when my dad was super sick and in the hospital for months, and at the same time we were having this years - long drought... and I just kept thinking «I just want a rainy day to sit inside and rest and recharge.»

At the same time, it enables work with on a bilateral basis to accelerate the development and deployment of climate - smart rice varieties adapted to region - specific conditions of drought, flooding and salinity brought on by climate change.

The one place on the mainland that came highly recommended was Chiang Mai, but we didn't go because they were having trouble with drought and wildfires at the time of our visit.

Some Arsenal fans have not been happy with the club for keeping Arsene Wenger as our manager for some time now and even though the pressure may have been taken off the Frenchman by the team ending the long trophy drought and then backing it up with back to back FA cup wins at Wembley, the failure so far this season to take advantage of the struggles of the Premier League big boys has brought it all back with a bang.

Benteke's scoring drought comes at one of the worst possible times for Liverpool: they are still expected to be without star striker Philippe Coutinho for the foreseeable future and have a Capital One Cup Final with Manchester City coming up on the schedule.

I get the criticisms, I truly do, but a lot of fans blindly deny the fact that he does score goals for us, and highlight his drought at the end of season as though that was the story of his season with us, neglecting the fact that before that he was scoring near on a goal a game in a time where we desperately needed it to secure CL football when it was in no way guaranteed..

Lukaku has scored three times in two games over the international break, and will now hope to end his goal drought at club level after going seven matches without finding the back of the net for Manchester United.

Again I bring up that I'm not mad at Thibs for signing Jamal and Rose, I think it's virtually impossible to scout players you don't know if all your free time is going towards coaching a team out of a 14 year playoff drought.

They have now failed to score in any of their last five league games for the first time ever and their goal drought is currently standing at 465 minutes.

The defending champions are enjoying a six - match unbeaten run in the league − five wins and one draw − whilst Nani and Wayne Rooney both ending their goal droughts at home to Wolves last time out could be an ominous sign of things to come.

Bolton could climb out of the relegation zone with a rare win at White Hart Lane on Saturday, however they've not won there since 2004 and with Tottenham in sparkling form domestically, it's difficult to imagine that particular drought coming to an end any time soon.

Yes, the trophy drought is annoying, and it would be nice to see Arsenal win the trophy, but to almost blindly react with #WENGEROUT seems almost thoughtless; there is a time, and a place to have that discussion, but instead of becoming an angry and polarising discussion it should be done when everyone is a little more calmer, and, preferably, at the end of the season.

But in the past, such drought - spawning events actually occurred during the monsoon season; «the drought peaks at the time when normally this area is receiving its maximum month of rainfall,» Abrams says.

Although dryland producers — those who grow crops without irrigation — are more vulnerable in times of drought, many irrigators are gazing warily at dropping water tables.

Yet even last summer — staring at the effects of growth and drought on the reservoir, where once - drowned islands were visible for the first time in as much as 75 years — Mulroy apologized for none of it.

It has been unclear, however, how the effects of drought co-vary with legume species, soil condition, agroclimatic region and drought timing, said Lixin Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and the corresponding author of «Global synthesis of drought effects on food legume production.»

We took water away from farming in times of drought, and we urbanized land and water at the same time.

In times of drought, those with the oldest, or most senior, rights to water would get it first; those with the newest rights would have to wait at the back of the line.

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.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

«This is surprising because European moles do the opposite: they are more often found on the surface at the time of extreme drought,» Dinets said.

Even at the time of the last IPCC report in 2007, the trends for extreme heat, droughts and intense rainfall were already clearly upward.

European wheat production areas have to prepare for greater harvest losses in the future when global warming will lead to increased drought and heat waves in southern Europe, and wet and cool conditions in the north, especially at the time of sowing.

At the same time, poleward shifts of westerly winds in the Southern Ocean reduced the region's ability to suck up CO2 as have mid-latitude droughts, which slowed the growth rate of forests and plants that capture carbon.

It's difficult to say why the cocoliztli was so deadly for the native peoples, but the indigenous population may also have been suffering from malnourishment as a result of a great drought that afflicted the region at the time, Acuña - Soto says.

Todd Dawson, professor of integrative biology at the University of California - Berkeley, said the research provides a holistic understanding of tree die - off at a time when global temperatures — and possibly drought conditions — are expected to rise.

«Climatologically speaking, 15 years is a very short span of time, but it is safe to say that the current California drought rivals any in recent memory,» said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center.

At the same time, the Amazon faces threats from climate change and the possibility of increased drought, making proper management all the more important.

Indeed, climate records indicate that the arid, landlocked steppe was seized by decades of drought in the late years of the 12th century, possibly exacerbating the violent conflicts that racked the region at the time.

Teotihuacan, less than 100 miles to the west, was in decline at the time, also possibly because of more frequent droughts.

At the same time, beetle damage and drought have devastated Canada's boreal forests, causing it to slip into being a net emitter of carbon, as decaying wood releases carbon to the atmosphere.

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

The real stroke of genius comes when Alva brings the boys over the house of his on - vacation girlfriend, and they take advantage of the drought that California was suffering at the time by boarding in her empty pool.

Throughout, Tiffany (an agricultural journalist living in Melbourne) explores the themes of man against nature, and the nature of man against man, but she also captures a big slice of social history, illustrating the incredible hardships of the time - the great depression, extensive years of drought, the memories of one war still present and the impending onset of another - stories that are at one level uniquely Australian but at another level, totally universal.

But at the time of Brexit, the markets thought the World was going to end and the planet earth was going to get hit by cyclone followed by earthquake, tsunami and drought.

the digital age's impact on our expectations of privacy; the increasingly pronounced economic inequality throughout the world, which leaves resources under the control of few; increased military spending at a time when basic human needs related to shelter, food, and medicine are not being met; and worldwide drought and the impact of water shortages.

The obvious open questions relate to the importance of other forcings, in particular, greenhouse gases (which were not changed in this experiment), and the robustness of any transient response (i.e. does a simulated drought occur in the Sahel in the 1980s more often than at any other time).

On the other hand, another effect of global warming, namely massive, continent - wide, intense, persistent drought, could begin at any time and have catastrophic effects on agriculture, leading to widespread famine within a few years.

Since this is the case, that the ENSO cycle is so much shorter, there is no relation between the two phenomena (ENSO and GW), with the exception that GW may trigger a change in the nature of ENSO, increasing its frequency (i.e. reducing the time it takes to complete a cycle) and / or increasing its intensity (putting people in affected areas at risk of experiencing worse famine - causing droughts, flooding, and storms).

However, the point remains that according to the very same projections, 50 % of the world will be experiencing drought at any given time.

It describes some of the recent drought conditions, compares observed drought and modeled drought conditions from 1950 (observed was roughly 20 %) to 2000 (observed was roughly 30 %), then makes projections based upon climate models and the business as usual SRES A2 scenario where roughly 50 % of the world's land will be experiencing drought by 2100 at any given time.

Sacramento is also in its third year of drought, so clearly not an area with an overabundance of water, especially at this time.

Colin Kelley, a climate scientist at the University of California — Santa Barbara and the study's lead author, said long - term climate trends made Syria's 2006 - 2010 drought two to three times more likely, and future trends point in the same direction.

Researchers who have checked data from three satellites confirm that the land on which they live is subsiding at the rate of a centimetre a year in times of drought.

Studies examining different aspects of this drought point to the unusually warm temperatures that have affected California at the same time as both a cause and consequence of the extreme drought.

Instead, he says the drought had to do with what at the time was an unappreciated part of the climate system: the El Nino warming phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean.

A warmer climate therefore increases risks of both drought — where it is not raining — and floods — where it is — but at different times and / or places.