Sentences with phrase «by rainfall killed»

BRAZIL / / / LANDSLIDES In areas surrounding Rio de Janeiro, landslides triggered by rainfall killed 850 in January.

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This killed plants, and soil was stripped by rainfall and washed into the sea.

And when Tanzania suffers unusual rainfall — either drought or flooding — witch - killings double, according to research by Edward Miguel, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Every day in the life of any villager under thirty, this terrible eruption - the flaring of gas from the oil extracted by PetroGlobal Luandia from beneath the deep - red clay - had never ceased, its searing, poisonous heat denuding trees, killing birds and animals, and turning the rainfall to acid, which corroded the roofs that sheltered the people's thatched homes.

People who were killed by malaria, which was caused by an increased rainfall, which was caused by climate change, which was caused by somebody driving a 4 × 4 in South London, were killed, first and foremost, by malaria.

This comes in terms of the lack of water from glacial melt, or changes in disease vectors, or rainfall patterns, or the lodge pole pine being killed off by beetles in million - acre swaths.

The drought that killed the trees could intensify because of the intricate relationship between the rainforest and the rainfall, in which trees play a role in maintaining a pattern of precipitation by pumping fallen water back into the atmosphere.