Sentences with phrase «drought and floods»

The world is witnessing implications of reduced forest cover in the form of vicious cycles of droughts and floods in different regions.

The findings also suggest a rising probability of droughts and floods in the near future as annual rainfall becomes more variable, the researchers said.

The evidence is increasing that climate changes is leading to more extreme weather events, such as droughts and floods.

More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke.

That's a huge challenge, and as the climate changes, higher temperatures and more severe droughts and floods will make it even harder.

As climate change increases the variability in temperature and precipitation, it's creating the wild contrast we see between drought and floods, leaving us more at risk than ever before.

They expect climate change to do a number on this ecosystem, causing droughts and floods, disasters upon disasters.

From sea level rise to increased drought and flooding across the country and the world, proper defense planning must include considerations related to climate change impacts.

Climate model projections suggest that by year 2100, both intense drought and flooding may increase in frequency by at least 50 percent.

Worse droughts and floods, more forest fires, increased ocean acidification, and more are all expected due to increased carbon dioxide in the air.

Nor will I attempt to relate droughts and floods to global warming, others have already done that.

The variability in ocean surface temperature year to year, decade to decade, century to century result in persistent regimes of droughts and floods at many scales and with irregular beats.

From planning an outdoor wedding to ending droughts and floods, the appeal is obvious.

During that time, severe droughts and floods associated with climate change will also become more commonplace.

One needs to compare the losses due to drought and flood compared to the increases occurring from added rainfall and longer growing seasons.

But they come tied to increasing drought and flood volatility.

It is these vital resources of food and water that can begin to explain how best to fight the tragic losses we already have in the coming droughts and floods.

Climate change also makes soil less suitable for farming, as nutrients key to plant growth are stripped out by these same droughts and floods.

Making such a discussion even more critical is how the direct impacts of climate change, such as record - breaking drought and flooding, are already impacting oil sands developers.

Working with nature, we can have clean, healthy rivers that make communities more resilient, more able to withstand droughts and floods in the years to come.

But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall patterns less predictable, these gains are under threat.

Water on land can only affect rainfall in certain areas says a new study which could help future planning for droughts and floods.

Climate change is bringing more severe droughts and floods, putting increasing pressure on water resources across the country.

Driven by drought and flooding, Eric Yiryel left rural northern Ghana for Accra, the country's capital, where is now studying accounting.

In 1988, James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who, through much of his career, has pressed elected officials to limit greenhouse gas emissions, constructed «loaded» cardboard dice for a Senate hearing, to illustrate that we were, in essence, tipping the climate system toward ever higher odds of unpleasant events like droughts and flooding rains.

The El Niño Southern Oscillation is a natural fluctuation of ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that can give rise to El Niño and La Niña, which drive droughts and floods from South East Asia and Australia to the Americas.

The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.

The super El Nino of 2015 - 2016 brought droughts and floods around the world, yet it is its sister La Nina that is now fueling drought and hunger in East Africa.

With sea level rise slowly swallowing Pacific island nations and warming sea and air temperatures exacerbating droughts and floods around the world, we're closer than we've ever been to a climate change - triggered migration event.»

This infographic shows how more frequent and intense droughts and floods affect the most vulnerable households at risk of hunger, and what World Food Programme is doing to help people adapt and build resilience to climate change.

A better understanding of what gives rise to ENSO might help California predict and prepare for more frequent droughts and floods in the coming century.

The El Niño Southern Oscillation is a natural fluctuation of ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that can give rise to El Niño and La Niña, which drive droughts and floods from South [continue reading...]

In this study, we demonstrate that the Little Ice Age (LIA, ~ 1400 — 1850 CE) might be more representative of future hydroclimatic variability than the conditions during the MCA megadroughts for the American Southwest, and thus provide a useful scenario for development of future water - resource management and drought and flood hazard mitigation strategies.

The research increases the understanding of how the water cycle is related to extreme events and could eventually help in predicting droughts and floods, said lead author Jiangfeng Wei, a research scientist at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences.

Organic farming is a climate solution: it sequesters more carbon in the soil than conventional farming and provides greater resilience during droughts and floods.

The forecast ignored previous drought and flood cycles, and was demolished by record rains in 2011, 2013 and 2014.

One of the mightiest El Niño patterns in memory brought unprecedented drought and flooding in 2016, the hottest year on record.

The disruption of surface currents in the Pacific Ocean that causes droughts and floods over large areas of the Earth's surface has smaller counterparts in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.