Sentences with phrase «frequent flooding in some areas»

«The possibility of more frequent flooding in some areas and sea level drops in others would have severe consequences for the vulnerable coastlines of Pacific islands,» Dr Widlansky says.

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Iodine deficiency is common in mountainous areas far from the sea and places where there are frequent floods, because iodine is washed from the soil.

LONDON (Reuters)- Extreme floods like those swamping parts of Britain in recent months could become more frequent in Europe by 2050, more than quadrupling financial losses, if climate change worsens and more people live in vulnerable areas, research showed on Sunday.

«I think this was a valuable period, because, we had increasingly frequent and severe flooding in our low lying coastal areas, and it's a wakeup call of what we are headed into,» Wanless said.

this has always seemed so pitifully obvious: storms don't have to be more powerful or more frequent; there just has to be more stuff built in storm - prone areas to get blown and flooded away, and the cost of the damage necessarily increases accordingly.

Farming in Africa is often done in marginal areas — such as flood plains, deserts, and hillsides — where ever more frequent weather shocks cause severe damage to soil and crops.

Hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will be affected by rising sea levels, increased precipitation, inland floods, more frequent and stronger cyclones and storms, and periods of more extreme heat and cold.

But popular visitor destinations were at risk, with major cities in coastal areas expected to face more frequent flooding in coming years, while Australia's «Red Centre» region could experience more than 100 days annually above 35 °C by 2030, it found.

But popular visitor destinations were at risk, with major cities in coastal areas expected to face more frequent flooding in coming years, while Australia's «Red Centre» region could experience more than 100 days annually above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2030, it found.

Global climate change will affect the water cycle, likely creating perennial droughts in some areas and frequent floods in others.

They know it from days and nights that are hotter than in the past; from more frequent and more intense hurricanes or freak years like the last one when there were none; from long periods of dry weather followed by unseasonable heavy rainfall and flooding; and from the recognisable erosion of coastal areas and reefs.

Since the millenium, exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is drying up), weather patterns have changed drastically, winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).

Due to climate change, hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will experience rising sea levels, inland floods, more frequent and intense storms, and more frequent periods of extreme heat and cold in the coming years.

For instance, by 2080, if we assume continuing growth rates in consumption of fossil fuels, the numbers of additional people exposed to frequent flooding in the river delta areas of the world would be counted in hundreds of millions assuming no adaptation measures were implemented.»

John Church, a researcher at the Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research in Hobart, said rising oceans will lead to more frequent devastating floods in coastal areas.

Crops will not grow where there is drought and soil degradation or in areas where there is frequent flooding — all of these are being accelerated by global warming in different parts of the planet.

Although flood may be frequent in some areas, it isn't in others.

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