Sentences with phrase «fueled by drought»

The loss of carbon from wildfires fuelled by drought could «counteract» efforts to cut deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, research suggests.

Not exact matches

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

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.

The outbreaks were accompanied by explosions in a tick - borne disease fueled by exceptional droughts, according to a new study.

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

In some ecosystems, big, severe wildfires are natural events and more climate - driven — by drought or high winds — so fuel reduction is not a very effective tool in these locations.

Forged in drought, fueled by rain «It's the longest pluvial we've seen going back 800 years,» said Pederson, a tree - ring scientist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

At the same time, low - humidity heat waves associated with droughts and fueled in part by climate change contribute to the dry conditions that are driving wild fires.3 4

But with it came a time of social turmoil; crime and violence fueled by thwarted expectations; a thirst for vengeance; high unemployment; and an influx of refugees from other African countries devastated by war, drought and economic disaster.

Fueled by prolonged drought conditions in the Southeast, 80,000 acres in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky are burning.

The year was marked by exceptional drought in the U.S. Southeast and the West, which helped fuel another extremely active wildfire season.

The drought - induced decline of carbon - dense tropical forests and their replacement by lower - carbon savannas would release enormous amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere, amplifying global warming far beyond the effects of just the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.

The fire was fueled by invasive grasses thriving after winter rains, along with shrubs and small trees killed by the years - long drought.

Forest firs are caused by droughts, carelessly discarded cigarette butts, and a buildup of organic fuel.

The choice is up to U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, who says stronger action by all, mainly to curb emissions from burning fossil fuels, is needed to avert more heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

Extreme heat, drought, storms, and other weather disasters are increasingly fueled by climate change and affect everyone regardless of political affiliation.

26 May 2016 — At a meeting today in the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa, senior UN officials stressed that climate change plays a direct role in the region's security, development and stability by increasing drought and fuelling conflict.

Mr. Clinton says his goal is to reduce the threat in coming decades of droughts, coastal floods, and famine from global warming — a warming of the atmosphere caused by rising concentrations of gases, especially carbon dioxide, released when fuels and forests are burned.

But the implication is that the current drought may be worse than normal because of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels on a colossal scale: the researchers make the link only tentatively.

The warming records that article talks about are one offs, and beat by a slim temporary margin, whereas things like the California droughts are historical and mostly in a desert area already, which was charged up by heavy rainfall this spring, which led to so many ladder fuels to burn when it inevitably dries out by mid summer to late fall.

Repeated drought and tree loss mean that there is increasing risk that the forest may one day cease to be a «sink» for atmospheric carbon released by the combustion of fossil fuels.

The need to limit global warming is urgent, according to two experts from the Harvard Medical School and Duke University speaking for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute, who expressed their concern earlier this month that droughts fueled by unchecked global warming would touch off more wildfires and a rise in related public health problems.

The youth of Texas will inherit a state plagued by drought, fire, and rising sea - levels if Texas does not act soon to lead the shift away from the antiquated era of fossil fuel consumption.

Extremes of drought and heat present one kind of threat, and long - term climate change − driven by rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, as a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels − is another.

The team's findings strongly indicate that droughts, fueled by climate change, are leading to significant and systemic drying shifts in Amazon rainforests, resulting in fires that are more frequent and more intense than ever before.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

The research, presented by ten researchers from several North American universities and supported by the likes of NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and other institutions, doesn't make a call on whether the ongoing drought in the Midwest is tied to the same forces that fueled the 2000 - 2004 drought.

The sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by burning carbon fuels — including harm caused by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.

Over a longer time frame, those choices can fuel climate change, which in turn affects water quantity — through drought and other extreme weather events — and quality, by raising the temperature of lakes, streams, and rivers.

He also knows that with increasingly common extreme weather causing droughts for Delaware farmers and driving violent storms toward its coasts, climate change is a real threat that must be addressed by innovating away from reliance on fossil fuels.

Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions is blamed by scientists for intensifying storms, raising sea levels and prolonging droughts.

No matter how much of the U.S. corn crop is ruined by drought, no matter how high corn prices get, no matter how many people in developing countries are imperiled, the RFS requires that billions of bushels of corn be used to fuel cars rather than feed livestock and people.

The relative contribution of fossil fuel combustion and biomass combustion to the global black carbon inventory is a matter of some dispute, which is also probably being affected by drought - correlated rise in global wildfires.

Hirola, a distinctive - looking African antelope, are fast - declining in their dwindling habitat, teetering on the brink of extinction due to droughts fueled by climate change and a slew of other destructive human activities.

The threats faced by hirolas are by and large the same as those which are claiming a record number of species across the globe every year: droughts fueled by climate change, encroachment from expanding settlements in their habitat, and unrestricted hunting.

The number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people's lives, officials said Wednesday.

They see climate change — driven by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, in turn fuelled by ever - greater fossil fuel combustion — as an emerging «mega-disturbance»: the bringer of not just longer and hotter droughts but of a new class of affliction, the unprecedented «global - change - type drought».