Sentences with phrase «impacted by drought»

Agricultural yields are negatively impacted by drought.

It reviews past climatic extremes and uses them to highlight high - risk economic sectors which may be greatly impacted by drought.

«ECOSTRESS will enable a detailed investigation into plant water use throughout the day,» says Josh Fisher, the mission's science lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Furthermore, we'll be able to better understand how certain regions are being impacted by drought.

This year the Murray Darling Basin has lived up to its reputation as a highly variable natural environment, in which the elements have tested us all but particularly those people impacted by drought and flooding.

Not exact matches

Satellite images, taken by the US Geological Survey and NASA Landsat 7 and 8 satellites and collected by the online lake reference site Lakepedia, show the drought's devastating impact on major lakes in California.

Imagine the impact if the chronic droughts plaguing western North America and Australia could be eased by desalinated ocean water.

The impact of the weak world economy and the drought over the first half of 2003 are evident in the latest national accounts, which show that real GDP rose by 0.1 per cent in the June quarter and 2.0 per cent over the year (Table 10).

Food prices also fell (by 0.3 per cent) as the impact of the drought began to subside.

Even water - rich countries, like Germany, may be economically impacted in negative ways by global water scarcity, as imports from water - scarce countries often decline during droughts.

Gov. Ugwuanyi has institutionalized a culture of governance that is inclusive, endearing and also impacts positively on the lives of the people of the state in all spheres of development, despite the drought in the state's finance, occasioned by the nation's economic challenges.

Authored by 77 scientists from the Forest Service, other federal agencies and universities across the United States, the report outlines the way forests respond physiologically to drought - stress, as well as steps land managers and foresters can take to mitigate the impacts of rising temperatures and a lack of water.

Despite the plethora of research, more needs to be done, said the report, which ends with a wish list of critical research needs including better predictive capabilities and models, as well as ways to measure the socio - economic impacts of drought outside of money spent by the Forest Service suppressing fires.

Crops and livestock will be affected by flooding, drought and shifts in the timing of rainfall and temperature, but where and how these impacts will be felt is uncertain.

«The current drought is severe, and its impacts have been exacerbated by extremely high food prices, reduced coping capacity and a limited humanitarian response,» concludes the FEWS - NET analysis.

Because the effects of drought on legume production were found to be affected less by climatic regions and related more to legume species, the selection and promotion of drought - resistant legume species could provide an approach to minimize the impact of droughts.

Unseen by the human eye, plants interact with many species of fungi and other microbes in the surrounding environment, and these exchanges can impact the plant's health and tolerance to stressors such as drought or disease, as well as the global carbon cycle.

«Cultivating Hopi corn and other traditional, drought - resistant crops could become crucial for human survival in other places impacted by climate change.»

It speaks eloquently of stewardship of God's creation and care for the poor, those already affected by the exacerbating impacts of climate change on droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes and other extreme weather.

Warmer and longer winters, prolonged drought, and other impacts from a changing climate could boost the number of days conducive to extreme fire events by 35 percent, the study found.

Although snowstorms and rising sea levels garner more of the headlines about extreme weather driven by climate change, drought is quickly rising as the most troublesome, near - term impact.

Arctic sea ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next few decades could impact California's rainfall and exacerbate future droughts, according to new research led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists.

'' [S] ea - ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next decades could substantially impact California's precipitation, thus highlighting another mechanism by which human - caused climate change could exacerbate future California droughts,» the study says.

Qin said a primary objective of this study was to determine if this particular type of soil amendment could have a positive impact on plant growth under stress caused by drought or similar water - deficit conditions.

It showed, surprisingly, that drought stress is driven as much by growing season temperatures as winter snowpack.Carswell is deftly layering in the science and building a case about the impact of future warming.

The productivity of maize, the most economically important crop in the United States, can be negatively impacted by insect pests, drought, and other environmental stresses.

A new study led by Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FE&S) revealed that droughts could negatively impact the health of older adults, increasing their risk of mortality.

So in this sense, the 2002 drought and associated heat waves were more extreme than the earlier droughts, because the impact of the low rainfall was exacerbated by high potential evaporation (Karoly et al., 2003; Nicholls, 2004).

Espcially with the drought situation in the U.S. which is largely affecting corn which is fed to the livestock, etc... If you eat more foods not linked to corn, yeah, baby, you are not impacted as much financially by the drought, it seems.

The fact that it is endemic drought that threatens the Great Salt Lake in Utah, home to Smithson's beautiful, coiled extension of land into water, is darkly ironic: one human alteration to the landscape negatively impacted by another.

This loss is exacerbated by the intensifying Climate Destabilization (reportedly reflecting the start of the «Albedo Loss» feedback due to the decline of Arctic sea - ice and ice caps) which is suppressing subsistence farm yields and some commercial farm yields on a random basis by the impacts of extreme droughts, storms, floods, and heat and cold waves.

The model explores short - term scenarios of policy decisions by simulating social - economical - environmental systems, including the impact of climate - induced drought on crop failures and food prices.

The displacement would be caused «by the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, and droughts associated with shrinking water supplies and changes to the monsoon season,» said Rajan, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.

Food and fiber will be impacted in a serious manner by temperature increases, with or without more drought.

By 2010 impacts long predicted were turning up, sooner than many had expected — acidification of the oceans, unprecedented deadly heat waves, record - breaking floods and droughts, heat - related changes in the survival of sensitive species.

The other features — already mentioned — were the identification of dominant regional concerns, the highlighting of climate change impacts already occurring, and the report's effectiveness as an engagement tool, which Mooney had just commented on, plus one more thing: the focus on extreme events, which are both most noticeable by the public and the primary source of economic damage in the next several decades, as Dr. Michael Hanemann (author of this paper) explained to me for a story I wrote about the California drought.

The most severe impacts of climate change — damaging and often deadly drought, sea - level rise, and extreme weather — can only be avoided by keeping average global temperatures within 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) of pre-industrial levels.

Study Finds Two Groups Hardest Hit by California's Drought 01.25.2017 — A new Pacific Institute study is the first statewide effort to explore the impact of the California drought on vulnerable communities... Read More.

By Heather Cooley, Kristina Donnelly, and Peter Gleick September 3, 2015 Last week, the Pacific Institute published the first comprehensive analysis of the impacts of the drought on California crop revenue and agricultural employment through 2014.

California is currently impacted by a severe drought, resulting in high water temperatures, conditions that will become more common as a result of climate change.

As droughts have worsened, water bottling companies like Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, andNestlé are finding themselves under the microscope of public opinion for taking public water resources, packaging them for substantial profit, and then failing to adequately respond to public concerns about their local impacts, lack of transparency of data sharing, and their role in helping share the burdens imposed by water shortages and drought.

But by looking at other metrics, Trenberth says climate change worsened the drought and its impacts.

By Amanda Pebler, Communications Intern July 20, 2014 «Future droughts are likely to cause still more severe impacts to California's environmental resources.»

Floods and droughts will also impact health by threatening sources of clean water and food.

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For example, as an accompanying News & Views article by Prof Sonia Seneviratne and Dr Philippe Ciais points out, the study doesn't include some of the non-climate impacts of drought on ecosystems.

The losses would be caused by the direct destruction of assets by increasingly extreme weather events and also by a reduction in earnings for those affected by high temperatures, drought and other climate change impacts.

In addition, there are the impacts to the poor as food becomes more expensive as crops are damaged by drought.

a) Anabel Robredo, Usue Pérez - López, Hector Sainz de la Maza, Begoña González - Moro, Maite Lacuesta, Amaia Mena - Petite, Alberto Muñoz - Rueda: Elevated CO2 alleviates the impact of drought on barley improving water status by lowering stomatal conductance and delaying its effects on photosynthesis, Environmental and Experimental Botany, (April 2007) Volume 59, Issue 3, pp. 252 — 263.

As the effects of climate change become a growing concern, coffee production is increasingly impacted by rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, droughts and other environmental issues, including pests and diseases.

Persistent drought conditions have also adversely impacted water - dependent habitats and species within and downstream of forest uplands, as evidenced by heightened mortality of a riparian tree species in central Arizona [5] and declines in number of species and densities of native fish in the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico [6], [7].