Sentences with phrase «compounded by drought»

Julia Hinton from Property24 explains that the past 5 years of high growth has lead to affordability challenges, compounded by the drought's impact on local economy.

The problem affects humans as potable water shortages are becoming a more common occurrence, especially when compounded by drought.

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Inflation held around 15 % in the 1980s until hitting 54 % in 1988, to 191 % in 1992, and 183 % in 1993, compounded further by a prolonged drought.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

And in the 20th century the American Dust Bowl, an ecological catastrophe precipitated by drought and compounded by bad land - management policies, displaced 3.5 million people from the Midwest.

One potential way to protect crops is by spraying them with a compound that induces the plants to become more drought resistant.

All of this is compounded by the fact that trees close their stomata (surface pores that control gas exchange) when facing drought to prevent water loss from transpiration, but this can collapse the hydraulic transport system.

In addition, the effects of global warming and its associated disturbances (including floods, droughts, insects, and fires) will be compounded by pollution, resource exploitation, and habitat fragmentation, adding further challenges to species» ability to adapt.

In addition, the effects of global warming and its associated disturbances (including floods, droughts, insects, and fires) will be compounded by pollution, resource exploitation, and habitat fragmentation, adding further challenges to species» ability to adapt.

In coming decades, worst - case scenario natural droughts compounded by land use change and climate change could result in droughts more sever than any since 1520.

In California, the added heat has been compounded by the prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016, which dried out vast swaths of wilderness and opened the door to a devastating beetle bark infestation.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.