Sentences with phrase «drought following decades»

Not exact matches

Yasi plus - thankfully we didn't have a New York in its path; the big wet that followed the big dry; the catastrophic fires killing nearly 200 people - all record - breaking «events» (if you call a decade - long drought an «event»).

Just this past spring and summer, we witnessed many of these sorts of climate - related disasters in the U.S., including floods in the central U.S. and North Dakota ($ 5 billion), and a $ 9 billion dollar drought in the southwest (which followed more than a decade of drought in this region).

The Governor's Office of Planning and Research also provides helpful advice to Californian citizens on how to identify us: «Many of the deniers share some traits...» This witch hunt follows a serious drought, caused by the decades - old environmental activism of Jerry Brown.

This cycle of several wet decades followed by a drought was repeated during the 18th century.

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

Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.

The CSSA says extreme weather events, such as Australia's decade - long drought followed by appalling floods, are already hitting agricultural yields.

The current drought — the worst in decades, following the failure of both the main and short rain seasons — has reportedly affected 12 million and the real number may be far more.