Sentences with phrase «from years of drought»

The bark beetle preys on California pines, feasting on thirsty, defenseless trees weakened from years of drought.

Whether it be Natural Gas prices responding the Polar Vortex, hundreds of thousands of Cattle dying because of an early winter storm in the plain states, or a plentiful corn crop recovering from a year of drought; climate affects futures prices.

Not exact matches

According to the most recent federal forecast, about 48 % of the contiguous U.S. is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, down from a high of 60 % at the beginning of the year.

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.

It is important to capitalise on good storage volumes and environmental water availability in wetter years in order to build ecological resilience — the ability of river, wetland and floodplain ecosystems to withstand and recover from the impact of future droughts.

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Storm system heads toward drought - stricken California: Drought - stricken California was set to get some relief from an approaching storm that forecasters said would be unusually strong for this time of year for parts of the state...

After a year of vine - killing frosts, hail, drought, and destructive wildfires in regions from across the globe, the wine industry has a lot to look forward to in 2018.

Arsene Wenger masterminded the end of a nine year trophy drought with a remarkable comeback victory over Hull City in 2014 — but it was far from easy.

The problem is the WOB can not distinguish the years of financial drought from post 2013 (when we bought Ozil).

1998 JANET ELWAY maintains safe distance from husband JOHN before Super Bowl XXXII; after 14 - year drought, John scores first of two NFL titles

Nigeria ended a 19 - year Africa Cup of Nations title drought Sunday with a 1 - 0 final victory over Burkina Faso at Soccer City thanks to a late first - half goal from Sunday Mba.

Well when it does inevitably come to an end, I will be one of them cheering off the most successful manager Arsenal has EVER had, who changed our style from boring to beautiful, who carried us through the decade of financial drought and loss of key players while we built a new stadium, still cutting top 4 and giving us CL year after year.

The burden from 13 years of a title drought must surely be still weighing heavy on the players» shoulders and can not be removed, simply, by loosening the purse strings again or changing the manager, as rivals Liverpool have found out during the past 30 years.

After last season's FA Cup win against Hull ended a ten - year trophy drought, Arsenal are clearly moving in the right direction, while the acquisitions of Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona and Ozil from Real Madrid highlight the club's new financial capabilities in the transfer market.

Arsene Wenger has been a busy bee in pre-season, plotting how his Arsenal team will retch the Premier League trophy from out of Chelsea's hands thus ending their seven year drought without the most coveted piece of silverware in English football, the Premier League crown.

As previously mentioned, I'm on a mission to recover from a traffic drought that I feel I've been in for most of the year.

NEBRASKA CITY, Nebraska, Aug 20 (Reuters)- The Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour on Tuesday projected Nebraska's average corn yield at 154.9 bushels per acre, up from a drought - reduced 131.8 bpa last year and the tour's three - year average of 147.9 bpa for the country's No. 3 corn producing state.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the USDA to begin the process of issuing a disaster declaration to help Upstate New York farmers who suffer major losses and crop damage from this year's severe drought..

Extreme drought in the Colorado River Basin last summer forced the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which manages river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - feet.

The address captured what some advocates had hoped to hear from Obama following the bruising impacts of widespread disasters last year, including a drought that sizzled 60 percent of the nation and damages from Superstorm Sandy exceeding $ 50 billion.

But a reservoir like Lake Mead takes four years of normal flows to fill; it still hasn't recovered from the drought of the early 2000s.»

The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

The researchers say that, in drought years, water stress keeps the rainforest from absorbing the 1.5 billion metric tons of CO2 it would sop up in a normal year.

It finds that heat stress concurrent with drought or water excess can explain about 40 % of the changes in wheat yields from one year to another.

This story touches on four hot issues: a drought stretching into its fifth year that is having devastating consequences, especially in central Iran; a controversial plan to transform Iran's only island in the Caspian Sea into a tourism hub; alarming declines of Iran's forests due to wildfires, conversion to cropland, logging, and urbanization; and efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah from extinction.

Young trees don't actually start to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxidefor 20 years, he says, and it takes a tree 100 years to remove a measly 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — assuming the tree survives drought, fire, flood, disease, and other afflictions.

But imagine that the same amount of water melting from Greenland each year is being lost in California and the rest of the West because of the epic drought there.

Evidence from tree rings collected near modern - day Mexico City confirms Rodolfo Acuña - Soto's hypothesis: The years of the greatest Aztec plagues were preceded by years of exceptional drought.

To determine the true toll of droughts, Princeton University ecophysiologist William Anderegg and colleagues turned to the International Tree - Ring Data Bank, which stores 100 years or more of tree - ring data from more than 1500 nontropical areas of the world.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

«Foresters and ecologists have long gauged the severity of drought from tree mortality that happens the same year.

«After a drought occurs, managers may have a couple of years to do something to prevent declines from causing a tree's death,» Berdanier said.

They have concluded that climate change from about 4000 years ago, in particular more drought - prone seasons caused by the onset of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation, was the likely main cause of mainland extinction.

«So farmers, after suffering from 10 years of drought, invest heavily in crops.

During a briefing for the California Department of Food & Agriculture, scientists from the University of California, Davis, told officials that based on their preliminary research and modeling, the drought is resulting in a harder economic pinch this year than it was in 2014.

THE three - year drought threatens to wipe out the last of the Muir Woods coho salmon that make their way each year from the Pacific to spawn in a freshwater creek running through the redwoods near San Francisco

They found evidence of a 650 - year period of frequent droughts that extended from around A.D. 500 to about A.D. 1150.

This major hurricane drought surpassed the length of the eight - years from 1861 - 1868 when no major hurricane struck the United States» coast.

Even with several heavy rainfall events from El Niño conditions toward the end of the year, nearly 88 percent of the state continued to experience the ongoing drought at year's end.

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

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

A little over 2 percent of the state is in exceptional drought, down from 44 percent a year ago.

Much of the northern half of South America also had elevated November temperatures, particularly parts of Brazil, which has been suffering from an intense drought this year.

At 55, I began a push - up routine and quickly progressed from a 20 - year drought of zero to being able to do 30.

It explores the diversity of its landscape from the seas to the arid interior, the effects of flood, drought and bushfire and the impact of over 200 years of European settlement on the land, its plant and animals.

Enjoy the year - round beauty of drought - tolerant non-invasive plant collections from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and California.

Nintendo has intentionally spread out their first - party titles throughout the year to try to prevent a drought of game releases, a lesson learned from previous consoles.

The cascading flurry of paper patterns emerging from origami pipes suspended from the gallery ceiling will tell the story of a community ensnared in a five - year drought, but is still hopeful for a reemergence of vegetation.