Sentences with phrase «droughts in tropical rainforests»

In 2010, for example, one - fifth of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.

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Droughts could kill off the tallest trees in tropical rainforests in coming decades, a study suggests.

Findings from the world's longest - running drought study in tropical rainforest show that it is breakages in the trees» water transport system that lead to their death — rather than starvation.

These drought conditions, see the IRI forecast, are likely to promote continued, possibly even increasing forest fires in many of the world's most important remaining tropical rainforests, including Borneo and the Amazon, causing not only biodiversity loss, but also deterioration of air quality and dramatically increased CO2 emissions.