Sentences with phrase «damaged by drought»

Anyone reading that who was not 100 % familiar with the text of the papers involved would assume that this means «Amazon is not as damaged by drought as IPCC claims».

Meanwhile Dan Nepstad, a scientist at the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), has estimated that as much as 55 percent of Amazon forests could be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years should deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace.

(02/27/2008) More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years.

One kid says that his family's farm has been damaged by drought and wildfire.

In addition, there are the impacts to the poor as food becomes more expensive as crops are damaged by drought.

Not exact matches

Weathering the Storm: With California stuck in extreme drought and last year's barley crop damaged by heavy rain, climate change is posing serious problems for the brewing industry.

Please do nt suggest that wenger will prove us wrong by winning the fa cup because thats a trophy thats been long over due for the damage of the last nine year drought, if man city was still in it woudnt an advantage arsenal, in wenger we rust!

WHEREAS, While agriculture has many challenges — during this 20 - month planning timeframe County farms experienced very damaging frosts and a significant drought — farmers and consumers alike see opportunities in Erie County to improve farm profitability and connect farms with the consuming public by addressing interest in local farms and local food; and,

On 18 July, nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states were declared «natural disaster areas» by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a result of crop damage and loss caused by the drought and heat.

In a study published Monday in the journal New Phytologist, a team led by Louis Santiago, a professor of Botany & Plant Sciences, found that tropical trees in Paracou, French Guiana have developed an unusual way to protect themselves from damage caused by drought.

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.

Earth, damaged by excess carbon levels, is fraught with catastrophic drought and famine.

A UC Riverside - led team of researchers have found that Amazonian trees have developed an unusual way to protect themselves from damage caused by drought.

But early growth followed by frost or drought could damage fragile sprouts and reduce the amount of carbon that certain plants are able to absorb.

North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana Drought: $ 2.5 Billion When: March 1 to Dec. 31, 2017 Deaths: 0 The damage: A «flash drought» characterized by extreme high temperatures and little rainfall hit North and South Dakota and Montana beginning in March.

Several of those now discussed could be used to intentionally damage territories and populations by inciting droughts or floods, or by changing sea or air chemistry.

This is almost as bad for farmers as drought, since the rain falls on parched ground with extra force, and much of it runs off without soaking into the ground, and it causes damage to boot by washing away soil and plants.

By Anna Flávia Rochas and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Jan 9 (Reuters)- Southeastern Brazil is getting some rainfall a year after a record drought started, but not enough to eliminate worries about an energy crisis, water shortages or another season of damaged export crops, meteorologists said.

Scientists, engineers and others who study extreme weather have proposed numerous ways to reduce the suffering and damage inflicted by hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, deluges, droughts and such.

First, the fact that we Earth has previously experienced floods, severe weather and droughts in the past does not negate the dangers these events pose, nor the increased damages that will result from increasing frequency of these events predicted by climate models.

The tangerine tree is among the most drought - and frost - tolerant of citrus trees, although developing fruits can be severely damaged by cold.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

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 other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

The most severe impacts of climate change — damaging and often deadly drought, sea - level rise, and extreme weather — can only be avoided by keeping average global temperatures within 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) of pre-industrial levels.

According to new research, drought damage will likely cause widespread forest death by the 2050s as a result of climate change.

The document also notes that climate change - induced drought will increase the chances of devastating wild fire and forest die - back, which by removing or damaging forest cover will induce root decay, resulting in loss of slope stability.

In other words, drought recovery is seen as immediate and complete, partly because models are, by definition, simplified versions of the real world, but also because scientists are just beginning to understand these damage processes.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Serious tree loss and stunted growth caused by repeated droughts in the Amazon Basin have damaged the rainforest's vital ability to store atmospheric carbon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2910017.stm «The vast numbers affected by the effects of climate change, such as flooding, drought and forest fires, mean that potentially people, organisations and even countries could be seeking compensation for the damage caused.

Additionally, a work programme collecting data on loss and damage caused by slow - onset disasters — such as droughts — received an extension.

The Paris accord also holds out carrots for participation by developing nations, including a new mechanism to fund loss and damage from hurricanes, droughts or rising sea levels.

After a series of embarrassing predictions and wild factual errors damaged global - warming alarmists» credibility — possibly beyond repair — the United Nations is again warning of impending doom: localized floods and droughts caused by climate change theoretically linked to human activity.

The first is that any extra damage caused by drought as a consequence of human emissions will not scale linearly with attribution.

The climate change debate is finally arriving at this third stage, with unsettling predictions about populations displaced by sea - level rise, drought and storm damage, etc..

Jolts to supply availability or pricing can result, say, from water shortages experienced by manufacturers or agricultural producers in drought - stricken areas or damage from severe weather.

By Joe Ferrell, Communications Intern February 21, 2014 The current drought is shaping up to be particularly damaging to small and rural communities.

By Peter Gleick February 10, 2014 Droughts — especially severe droughts — are terribly damagingDroughts — especially severe droughts — are terribly damagingdroughts — are terribly damaging events.

«The warmest year in America, the epic drought, the melting Arctic and the damage caused by Sandy are all fresh in our minds,» he said.

The report, called the Third National Climate Assessment, was released Tuesday by the White House and calls attention to ways that climate change is already harming Americans, from droughts in the West to flood - damaged roads in the East.

This year Sandy alone may cost $ 50 billion — not to mention damage caused by record heat, record drought and record wildfires.

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.

US researchers have been looking, once again, at the long - term consequences of climate change and the damage to landscapes increasingly threatened by drought.