Sentences with phrase «drought over large areas»
What we are speaking of is years of drought over large areas occasionally interrupted by periods of severe flooding.
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«Today, 110 of the 169 countries that declared in 2013 that they are affected by land degradation or drought have expressed interest in recovering large areas of degraded over the next 12 years, under a special global initiative, the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she observed.
Tens of millions of trees have died in the Rocky Mountains over the past 15 years, over an area as large as Colorado, victims of a climate - driven triple assault of tree - killing insects, wildfires, and stress from heat and drought.
Forest cover helps preserve and even out rainfall and moisture over a large area and decreases both droughts and floods, which can mutually reinforce each other to bad effect.
This property includes drought tolerant landscaping, a large variety of fruit trees, vegetable and herb gardens, several types of berries, rose gardens, a custom designed brick bridge over a dry - rock river, topiaries, arbors, rain collection containers, an automated drip irrigation system and several intimate sitting areas for morning coffee or afternoon cocktails.