Sentences with phrase «decade after the drought»

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

Not exact matches

Last month, the UN reported that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising again after a decade of declines thanks to prolonged conflicts and climate change - related floods and droughts.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

When you add up all these little things, along with the fact that Wenger's job has always been safe, even after a decade of trophy drought, it makes you wonder!

But a major European trophy after a two - decade drought could make Arsenal as popular as Manchester United and Liverpool, among the young football fans and the players / managers

The two nations are both looking to end a two - decade long World Cup drought, with Germany the favourites to win their first title since 1990 after the sublime 7 - 1 demolition of hosts Brazil in their semi-final in Belo Horizonte.

Not only that but this our only shot I starting a streak of at least a trophy each season... it's not the EPL or CL trophy but I think it's important to show that we have progressed on that regard after our decade long drought more so against one of our bitter rivals: It doesn't matter by how much or well we win the game but that ww WIN period!!

Well when it does inevitably come to an end, I will be one of them cheering off the most successful manager Arsenal has EVER had, who changed our style from boring to beautiful, who carried us through the decade of financial drought and loss of key players while we built a new stadium, still cutting top 4 and giving us CL year after year.

Fighting Fire With Fire They called it Black Saturday: On February 7, 2009, after a decade - long drought and a suffocating heat wave, a firestorm of unimaginable ferocity swept through southern Australia's farms and forests.

His comments came after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found last week that within two or three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2 degrees, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and extreme weather.

I'll be delighted if he does, but I've questioned whether a French production can win two years running, after a two - decade drought to boot.

M. Night Shyamalan is back on top at the box office after a decade - plus drought thanks to his latest Philadelphia - shot thriller Split.

After over a decade - long drought of games, and the release of several «clones», Capcom and Double Helix have brought the futuristic ninja back to consoles and PC with his own pseudo-remake of the first title, Strider.

The science or environment ministers of one nation after another told us of how they are suffering already from droughts, typhoons, flooding and sea level rise which have set back their development by years or decades.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

Now consider the flip side, the Sahel drought that often occurs a few decades after the expansion.

After decades of worsening drought and following a strong 2014 - 2016 El Nino, Bolivia has declared a state of emergency.