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«Because of the impact of drought in recent years, many Australians would be well aware that water is a key element of food production and processing, and so water is a key element of thinking about sustainability.

Based at NPR West's studios in Culver City, CA, but frequently roaming the country, Siegler's reporting has also focused on the far - reaching economic impacts of the drought in the West while explaining the broader, national significance to many of the region's complex and bitter disputes around land use.

As Prof Peirs Forster, an IPCC lead author, wrote of the seminal study he led in 2012: «Food Security: Near future projections of the impact of drought in Asia» «Research released today shows that within the next 10 years large parts of Asia can expect increased risk of more severe droughts, which will impact regional and possibly even global food security.

In reconstructed Sacramento River streamflow, the 20 - year period ending in 1158 was the second driest in this record that extends to AD 869 (40), indicating the impact of this drought in northern Sierra Nevada watersheds as well.

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These financial impacts will mostly be felt in the poorest parts of Africa, Asia, and South America — causing loss of crops, droughts and other extreme weather, and increasing sea level rise.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

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).

Although Kaplan says the recent stretch of drought and bad weather will have a noticeable impact on the produce industry as a whole over the next year, Professional Produce stands prepared to increase its presence in the marketplace.

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.

Sonoma County Snares $ 8 Million to Fight Drought and Climate Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Friday...

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.

Simulating the yield impacts of organ - level quantitative trait loci associated with drought response in maize: A «gene - to - phenotype» modeling approach.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

City have never conquered in Europe but it is not just the club suffering a drought in the competition, with Guardiola failing to make a huge impact on the biggest stage of all in recent years — even with a star - studded Bayern Munich team, who made short work of their Bundesliga competition.

The environmental impact of cloth diapers is severely mitigated, if not eliminated, if you live in a drought - prone part of the world.

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.

Researchers examined the impact of the droughts on households in 10 villages.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria.

Although current drought worries have been focused in the West — Western states have experienced insect outbreaks; mass tree die - offs; loss of water and carbon; bigger and more costly wildfires; and economic impacts to timber stands due to severe, multiyear drought — in the wake of a changing climate, the report notes that «all U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought.»

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.

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 impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

It's difficult to ascertain the impact of rising temperatures on those connected events, but climate change in the future is expected to have its fingerprints on dueling droughts and floods.

«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.

Droughts are expected to become more common and more intense in many parts of the world, and researchers studied the impact on flowering plants using a field experiment.

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.

He focused on West Africa — in part because of the prolonged drought's ravaging impact.

The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire impacts of a warming global climate, which many scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.

«We were in Death Valley, in the third year of our study, measuring the impacts of drought.

For his PhD, Sil Lanckriet is studying climatic fluctuations in Ethiopia over the past centuries, as well as their impact on periods of drought and processes of soil erosion.

«Atlantic / Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires: New study shows that difference in water temperature between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans together with global warming impact the risk of drought and wildfire in southwestern North America.»

The impact of student debt on career choice has been a concern of academic leaders since the early 1990s, when a series of commentaries published in medical journals warned of a serious drought in the physician - scientist pipeline unless something was done to help recruit and retain people on that career path.

«These impacts are from increasingly severe droughts and eventual agricultural land - use recovery in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war.»

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.

Since 2011, the 10 - state Mississippi River corridor has seen $ 50 billion in natural disaster impacts, including a 100 - year flood, a 200 - year flood, a 500 - year flood, a 50 - year drought and two hurricanes, said Colin Wellenkamp, executive director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative.

In part because of its weakness, as well as its unusual timing, the El Niño isn't expected to have much impact on U.S. weather patterns, nor bring much relief for drought - stricken California.

«However, the recent climate anomalies as a result of climate change and warming of the Atlantic Ocean have created severe droughts in the tropics, causing major impacts on forests.»

Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

To clarify the impact of long - term drought on the Congo rainforest, Zhou and colleagues set out to see whether they could detect a trend in a satellite measure of vegetation greenness called the Enhanced Vegetation Index.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

Various studies predict an average 30 percent reduction in farm incomes due to climate change impacts, including greater extremes in temperatures and rainfall (floods, droughts) and the emergence of new pest and disease strains.

The new UNCCD 2018 - 2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations.

In addition, exclusion of human - related impacts such as irrigation, land use, and water diversion from most current climate models makes reliable projection of drought even less certain (Sheffield and Wood 2008).

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Plant from multiple species, seed sources, and climate zones, particularly from locally - adapted sources Manage to maintain genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity Create opportunities for rapid natural selection for species with high predicted potential for adverse impacts from climate change (Sturrock et al. 2011; Erickson et al. 2012; Alfaro et al. 2014; FAO 2014) Plant drought tolerant and native species Retain diversity of species and promote legacy trees Manage or restore mosaic (variable pattern of species and ages) and maintain or improve landscape connectivity Plant in asynchronous rotations and manage for diverse age classes Thin, plant, and use prescribed fire to favor species adapted to disturbance (Millar et al. 2007; Vose et al. 2016; Keane et al. forthcoming)

Oregon and Washington are the number one and two softwood - producing states in the nation, respectively; 20 these two states plus Idaho produce more than $ 11 billion in primary wood product sales.21 Our review of existing research suggests the Northwest's forests will experience significant potential impacts from climate change, in particular from wildfire — due to both increased drought and to wood damage from pests surviving warmer winters.

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.

Thanks to the volunteers who are running weather@home on their personal computer, a large number of present and future drought events in the UK are being created within the project «MaRIUS» (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity).