Sentences with phrase «devastating drought this year»

The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads.

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Organic dairy pastures are beginning to disappear in California due to the devastating drought over the last several years.

This story touches on four hot issues: a drought stretching into its fifth year that is having devastating consequences, especially in central Iran; a controversial plan to transform Iran's only island in the Caspian Sea into a tourism hub; alarming declines of Iran's forests due to wildfires, conversion to cropland, logging, and urbanization; and efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah from extinction.

We got a glimpse of what the future might be like this year, with drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan devastating crops.

A finger - sized fish that smells like a cucumber is threatening California's water supplies just as the state emerges from a devastating drought that has lasted seven years.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

These countries experience devastating drought regularly, and 2011 was a particularly damaging year.

Some years, you'll experience devastating drought — not even frequent watering will keep your garden green (bear markets).

Coverage fell despite the fact that extreme weather pummeled many parts of the world last year, from famine in East Africa, devastating drought in the Southern US and Mexico, and historic flooding in Thailand.

It also becomes more likely that these years will exhibit very extreme, far outside the norm, drought conditions that have devastating impacts to regions, nations and the world.

The vicious confluence of weather anomalies in recent years — and, even just this year we've seen a rash of devastating floods, tornadoes and droughts — suggest that shifting climate patterns are having adverse and wide - ranging effects on our ecosystem.

We can imagine a situation 30 years hence in which the Chinese Communist Party's grip on power is threatened by chaotic protests ignited by a devastating drought and famine.

SciDevNet: In recent years, climatic stresses, particularly droughts and floods, have devastated yields and caused crops to fail for many farmers across Pakistan.

After a record - breaking rainless January in San Francisco and much of the Bay Area, an «atmospheric river» will bring a rainstorm to the region this weekend — and one team of scientists will ride into the storm to study the phenomenon and its potential impact on California's devastating three - year drought.

Before discussing tornadoes, it is important to note that it is scientifically uncontroversial to conclude that climate change is causing more violent weather particularly in the form of: (a) more damaging thunder storms, (b) the kind of devastating flooding we have seen this year in Australia, Pakistan, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, along the Mississippi and the Tennessee valleys, and (c) more severe droughts such as those experienced this year in China, Brazil, and Texas.

Don Cheadle is on the ground in California, where the worst drought in 1,200 years is devastating the nation's most populous state.

Severe droughts, floods and landslides devastated parts of the world last year as carbon dioxide concentrations climbed to...

Climate scientists predict that while the drought that has devastated the US state for four years will become more extreme, it will be interspersed with bouts of serious flooding.

There is also the terrifying possibility that rain forests like the Amazon, which in 2010 suffered its second «hundred - year drought» in the space of five years, could dry out enough to become vulnerable to these kinds of devastating, rolling forest fires — which would not only expel enormous amounts of carbon into the atmosphere but also shrink the size of the forest.

We are afraid that four (possibly eight) years of denial and delay might commit the planet to not just feet, but yards, of sea level rise, massive coastal flooding (made worse by more frequent Katrina and Sandy - like storms), historic deluges, and summer after summer of devastating heat and drought across the country.

The past two years have seen major tornado outbreaks, severe impact on the northeast from tropical storms, and a devastating drought stateside.

In seasons of drought, like the one we've experienced in the past year, the lack of wetlands can be devastating to bird populations.

An international panel this year predicted that uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions could drive up global temperatures and trigger heat waves, devastating droughts and super storms.

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire.