Sentences with phrase «droughts lasting several decades»

They found that the region's history was punctuated by droughts lasting several decades, every 30 to 60 years.

Not exact matches

This scrappy 68 - year - old political scientist spent the last several decades hopscotching around the world's harshest places trying to build their capacity to anticipate nature's hard knocks, from the El Niño hot spells in the Pacific to drought in Afghanistan.

The infamous 1970s drought of the African Sahel region, which lasted several decades and killed more than 100,000 people, was actually a «minor» event, say researchers who have uncovered evidence that such droughts occur cyclically in the region and can be much more severe.

As well as the periodic droughts lasting decades, there was evidence that the Sahel region has undergone several droughts lasting a century or more.

Burkina Faso has been facing, in the last decades, several extreme weather events, including droughts, flooding, heat waves and intense winds, and thus, is more than ever determined to fight climate change.

It also found the region has experienced several droughts that have lasted more than a decade in the last few centuries.