Sentences with phrase «effects of drought in»
Anybody see the PBS programs on the effects of drought in Texas?
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combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought through effective action at all levels with a view to achieve sustainable development in affected areas.
The effects of drought in California are becoming overarching and can be enduring.
Based on Abrahm Lustgarten's Pro Public report, the Discovery Channel documentary explores the roots of water right's disputes in the American west, the effects of the drought in exacerbating them, and water as a new trading commodity on Wall Street.
A future that avoids, minimizes, and reverses desertification / land degradation and mitigates the effects of drought in affected areas at all levels... to achieve a land degradation - neutral world consistent with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The combined effects of drought in California and the falling Canadian dollar have caused the price of cauliflower to triple since the fall.
Not exact matches
The value of exports rose by around 2 3/4 per cent in the March quarter, reflecting a strong pick - up in the volume of rural exports, as farm production recovers from the effects of the drought.
Profits of the farm sector as a whole continued to recover from the effects of drought, while mining profits were flat in the December quarter 2003, following falls in the previous three quarters.
The fall in rural exports has been especially sharp, with the value of exports in the June quarter down by over 27 per cent on the level of a year ago, largely reflecting the effect of the drought.
The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.
The effect of the drought and weak external demand can be most clearly seen in the international trade figures (see the chapter on «Balance of Payments»).
In Kenya, for example, there's drought coupled with the after - effects of the post-election violence a year ago.
providing $ 25.8 million over 4 years to help manage the effects of pest animals and weeds in drought - affected areas, and an additional $ 50 million for pest animals and weeds across Australia.
Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.
The drought in California does not appear to have had a major effect on this years» crop, but many fear that continuing lack of rainfall could have a large impact on 2015 results.
«Latest reports suggest that more than 70 per cent of Queensland is in drought, which has had a direct effect on cattle markets as farmers continue to de-stock,» he said.
Water for Elephants in California National Storage Tank is the West Coast's largest purveyor of water tanks, and sees the effects of the California drought first hand; «We see the effect of the drought on Californians every day.
«Red Blotch Like Phylloxera for California»: Following a tasting in London on Tuesday this week, Bruce Cakebread discussed some of the issues facing wineries in California, in particular drought conditions and their effect on wine style, before mentioning Red Blotch as the biggest problem for growers in the region at the moment...
An educational conference for current and aspiring vintners, Grape Day 2014 will focus on viticulture and enology issues such as the effects of the California drought on grape - growing and best practices for disease and wildlife management in the vineyards.
Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other harmful effects of climate change.
The President's trip was for the purpose of determining what can be done, beyond the various government programs now in effect, to help drought sufferers over the crisis.
Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).
The after effects of climate change will worsen the severity and duration of droughts in years to come, the EEA says.
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has introduced drought - resistant and early maturing crop varieties to farmers in the Dormaa Central Municipality of Brong - Ahafo Region to help minimise the effect of climate change on farming activities in the area.
«Like the rain this weekend, this package is badly needed to help mitigate the effects of the historic drought California is facing,» Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez said in the news release on the announcement.
«They report the effects of drought upon crops, and I tackle these in the lab,» Dodd says.
Variants of one gene had a major effect on rapid changes in beak size after a drought, researchers report in the April 22 Science.
This study highlights the importance of considering hydrological drought for wildfire prediction, and the researchers recommend that hydrology should be considered in future studies of the impact of projected ENSO strength, including effects on tropical ecosystems, and biodiversity conservation.
With all the discussion about global climate change effects, new research shows that another kind of climate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought events — the microclimate.
Riehl found that periods of drought had had noticeable and widely differing effects on agriculture and societies in the Ancient Near East, with settlements finding a variety of ways to deal with the problem.
When the researchers simulated a second effect of climate change in addition to warming, namely drought, the results were even the opposite as expected: The soil animals ate less, and also the microorganisms living in the soil showed a decline in respiration — an indication that they also consumed less food.
«In Syria ineffective management practices, crop failure, and weak government response combined to exacerbate the societal effects of the drought,» said Joel Creswell, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow and one of the organizers of the symposium.
«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.
In combination with the direct effects of the droughts, in fact most of the Amazon forest might eventually be at risIn combination with the direct effects of the droughts, in fact most of the Amazon forest might eventually be at risin fact most of the Amazon forest might eventually be at risk.
Pollution - seeded clouds may have worldwide effects across all kinds of weather — from droughts in the South due to less frequent rain to other, more severe storms.
Yet even last summer — staring at the effects of growth and drought on the reservoir, where once - drowned islands were visible for the first time in as much as 75 years — Mulroy apologized for none of it.
It has been unclear, however, how the effects of drought co-vary with legume species, soil condition, agroclimatic region and drought timing, said Lixin Wang, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis and the corresponding author of «Global synthesis of drought effects on food legume production.»
«The problem is that most of the plant - tolerance models we currently use to predict these outcomes are based on laboratory studies or plant physiological studies, so they often don't factor in the compounding effects of simultaneous stressors like drought and pressure from natural enemies.
They are running two sets of climate models, one with and one without the effects of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, to see whether drought in east Africa becomes more likely in a warming world.
«If one lives in Canada's north or in our coastal communities, or really in any community that is subject to extreme weather conditions, and the resulting floods, droughts, and wildfires, the effects of climate change itself, can not be denied.
«With the potential negative effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long - term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.
The report, commissioned by the charity Oxfam, tracks the effects on four countries: Russia which experienced a heatwave in 2010; flood - hit Pakistan the same year; East Africa during the drought of 2010 - 2011; and the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.
Warmer winters, prolonged drought, and other effects of global warming multiply the threat of fire in these communities
Through an ensemble modeling approach, we were able to show that without anthropogenic effects, the droughts in the southwestern United States would have been less severe,» says co-author Axel Timmermann, Director of the newly founded IBS Center for Climate Physics, within the Institute for Basics Science (IBS), and Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University in South Korea.
High confidence in the reliability of fire prediction is lacking today, even as Western drought and the effects of climate change drive up the total acres burned nationwide and also the average size of each fire, ballooning the number of on - call U.S. Forest Service firefighters and the total costs to battle the flames.
Even as the effects of the Blob and El Nino dissipate, the central and southern parts of the West Coast face low snow pack and potential drought in 2018 that could put salmon at continued risk as they migrate back up rivers to spawn.
An El Niño can also bring flooding and drought to parts of Africa because of knock - on effects in the Indian Ocean.
Some modeling studies of such effects have suggested drought in the western U.S. or changes in precipitation patterns across Europe.
In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfalIn this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfalin order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.