Sentences with phrase «drought years alone»

Over the course of the study period, emissions from wildfires in drought years alone totalled more than 1bn tonnes, Aragão says.

Not exact matches

The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region.

In California alone last year, 5,600 wildfires burned more than 600,000 acres as the drought wore on.

Global warming initially got a lot of publicity from a minor drought at the end of the 80's I believe (minor compared to the dust bowl years), since then there hasn't been much unusual drought wise in the US (ie the droughts that have happened have been even less serious than the end of 80's situtation, let alone by comparison with the dust bowl years), but this hasn't exactly caused any problems.

Elsewhere, the report says that «The heat and drought depleted water resources and contributed to more than $ 10 billion in direct losses to agriculture alone» in Texas and Oklahoma combined that year.

Another study, published in Geophysical Research Letters in late December of last year, found that California's precipitation deficits alone do not make this drought a historic event.

In the past half - year alone, millions of people have been affected across the globe — from Europe suffering from the worst cold snap in a quarter century; to extreme flooding in Australia, Brazil, China, and the Philippines; to drought in the Sahel.

During this year alone studies have warned that climate change could result in the demise of coral reefs, the shutdown of the Gulf stream and related currents, melting Arctic ice and glaciers, emerging diseases, bitter winters and drought, changes in vegetation, stronger storms and hurricanes, and mass extinction.

In the last three years alone, we've seen extreme flood, drought and wildfire wreak havoc across Montana.

The drought alone is anticipated to cost California over $ 2 billion this year.

This year Sandy alone may cost $ 50 billion — not to mention damage caused by record heat, record drought and record wildfires.

In Texas alone, a drought that began last year has put crop and livestock losses over $ 4 billion, according to local economists.