Sentences with phrase «in arid»

Curb outdoor irrigation: Inskeep says that for some families, especially those watering large lawns in arid climates, outdoor water use can make up the majority of the household's water use.

For example, the Garnaut Review has identified the potential for biosequestration in arid Australia, in particular the potential of Mulga lands to provide a carbon emission reductions with significant sequestration capability:

Living in the arid centre of Australia.

Although a «hidden resource», groundwater serves the basic needs of more than half the world's population and may be the only source of water in arid and semi-arid countries.

Large collections of advice will build up, not simply in arid libraries but interleaved with online commentary and discussion.

His compelling perspective on climate change also connects to the Bren School's current Strategic Environmental Research Initiative, which is focused on wildfire at the urban - wildlife interface in the arid western United States under climate change.

The annual loss of water from a reservoir in arid or semiarid regions, where evaporation rates are high, is typically equal to 10 percent of its storage capacity.

The looming loss of the glaciers is a major problem for the people living in arid regions west of the Andes, Rabatel said.

Strata forming in arid regions differ from those formed in inundated areas or other regions with high annual rainfall.

Gains and losses in suitable plant growing days due to projected temperature changes alone are lessened because some regions are already limited by either solar radiation (reducing gains at high latitudes) or water availability (reducing losses in arid regions).

This increased water use efficiency of C4 grasses means that soil moisture is conserved, allowing them to grow for longer in arid environments.

This is expected to lead to decreased food security and increased vulnerability of poor rural farmers, especially in the arid and semi-arid tropics and Asian and African megadeltas.

And suburbs in arid environments might use gardens to shade their residents.

If ethanol production is in an arid region, non-renewable aquifers may be drawn down.

This smaller decline is driven mainly by patterns in arid regions (e.g., northern Africa, Australia, and the Middle East), where losses in suitable plant growing days due to higher temperatures are reduced because those locations are already limited by water availability (compare yellow - and white - colored areas in Fig 2A and 2D).

2006 ** Shepherd, J.M., 2006: Evidence of urban - induced precipitation variability in arid climate regimes.

Key challenges, therefore, will be to increasingly: 1) interrogate extreme events in climate simulations; 2) use earth system models to disentangle the complex and multiple controls on proxies; 3) adopt multi-proxy approaches to constrain complex phenomena; and 4) increase the spatial coverage of such records, especially in arid regions, which are currently under - represented.

From Alice Waters» original edible schoolyard efforts in California to one school's garden in the arid deserts of Arizona the concept is reconnecting kids with their food and each other.

Usually it's thought to live in wet environments, like ground beef, raw chicken, even leafy vegetables; but now we know it can survive in an arid environment.

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

In the arid plains of Kenya, however, the resource has long been in short supply as nearly half the population is without reliable access to clean water.

Before modern infrastructure or European settlers only a few thousand people could survive in these arid places.

Through a series of case studies, it provides an approach for investments in water, from irrigation to reducing climate - related risks in arid areas, to disaster risk management and access to clean water for nutrition and sanitation.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest, and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including processes arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

Also adding lawn irrigation actually may be cooling some cities in arid environments.

Further, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including those arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as: (i) soil erosion caused by wind and / or water; (ii) deterioration of the physical, chemical, and biological or economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.

Desertification - Land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities.

By mapping a key indicator of droughts, pests and wildfire in arid places, scientists offer hope for spotting — and addressing — drought before it sets in.

For example, there is accelerated glacier wastage in humid environments but it is suppressed in arid ones (10).

Adaptation of the agricultural sector to the effects of climate change in arid regions: competitive advantage date palm cropping patterns under water scarcity conditions

Use of fire and clothing allowed survival in colder regions, while irrigation offset droughts and allowed settlement in arid regions.

Seasonal meltwater from the Himalayan glaciers is one of the main sources of freshwater reserves that directly sustain people living in the region, especially in arid and semi-arid areas.

The greatest dependence is in arid and semi-arid areas, such as western China, northeastern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and parts of Pakistan (17, 37).

Mohamed, Issam A.W. (2010): The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan.

As a result of inappropriate management and rising levels of societal demand, in arid and semi-arid regions water resources are becoming increasingly stressed.

The uncertainties about future precipitation make it difficult for decision - makers to plan, particularly in arid regions such as the Sahel in Africa and southwestern North America.

Attempts to reintroduce threatened species in the arid zone of Australia have often failed because of extensive predation by feral cats [16, 17].

Thus, energy production and consumption can have a tremendous impact on water availability in arid climates or other areas where freshwater resources are scarce.

As per recent study, it is the «self - organizing» behavior of the vegetation that formed these mysterious circles in the arid grasslands of Namibia in Africa.

In Australia, a recently discovered cave site has shown that large - bodied mammals («megafauna») were able to persist even in the arid landscape of the Nullarbor in conditions similar to now.

We live in an arid climate so this is all we need.

Its objective was «to stimulate bioenergy implementation in arid and semi-arid regions in Africa.»

Less precipitation falls in the arid central areas, which also receive more sunshine than the coast or the Andean cordillera.

In arid climates, during the heat of the day, temperatures will soar much higher than in tropical climates.

Threatened birds are declining across 45 % of the country with extinctions in arid parts of Western Australia.

However, traditional wet - cooled CSP plants often consume a large amount of water which especially causes a challenge in arid areas where water resources are scarce.

Satellite measurements show that the increase of CO2 over the last few decades has already caused a pronounced greening of the planet — especially in arid regions.

For the rest of this century, cities in the east and southeast of the US will be more severely affected: less so the cities in the arid parts of the American west.

It becomes significant only in arid climates.

This idea is already in use by some military forces, including the Israeli and US military, for creating drinking water in arid regions where obtaining clean drinking water supplies -LSB-...]