Besides, these can help
increase water availability for the crops.
Possible increased growth and productivity concurrent with climate oscillations that
increase water availability, particularly at higher elevations and where stand density is low; extreme high temperatures would have net negative impact, regardless of water availability
The President applauded the World Bank's assistance to the project, which when completed would
increase water availability for all - season farming in the State and beyond.
The company also benefited from
increased water availability during the season resulted in 1823 hectares finishing as semi-irrigated cotton.
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Increased water availability from climate change may release more nutrients into soil in Antarctica: Increases in phosphorus load in soil and aquatic ecosystems may allow for more abundant life.»
Climate change may provide
increased water availability in Ethiopia despite the nuisances of this climate bring with other nations.
Other benefits such as
increased water availability, reduced energy demands, and greater ecosystem productivity may also occur in specific regions over the short or long - term.
Not exact matches
The study notes that a 99 % population
increase since 1950 combined with a 127 %
increase in
water use has further decreased
water availability, making it increasingly difficult to replenish
water supplies after a drought.
The challenges that we face with that ever -
increasing population with regards to climate change, food and
water availability, sustainability — those problems are going to be solved by science, and they're going to be solved by the kids today.
Dehydration itself
increases shelf life by lowering the
availability of
water to microorganisms that cause spoilage.
The effort, called «Pure Life Begins Now,» seeks to position the product as an environmentally friendly brand actively working to
increase global
water availability.
Most stuck to the well - known and trusted recipe, found in Dr. L. Emmett Holt's perennially popular childcare manual, Care and Feeding of Infants, of cow's milk diluted with
water and supplemented with sugar.41 Still, the
increasing availability and promotion of such products, along with the rise in safer, cleaner cow's milk thanks to certification programs and pasteurization, contributed to a growth in the number of women who bottle fed their infants.
Rep. Faso Vote Record Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com California Drought Prevention — Vote Passed (230 - 190, 13 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would require the Interior Department to take certain actions to
increase the
availability of
water for agricultural and other purposes in California's Central Valley, including a -LSB-...]
The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited
availability of
water for crops, the need to
increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.
They also have sustainable yield pledge awards for actions, such as improving
water availability or
increasing crop productivity, that conserve more or improve lives.
The reason is that global warming is likely to
increase droughts and change rainfall patterns, so
water availability becomes even more critical than before.
The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would improve people's health a great deal are: improving access to affordable healthy food (57 %), reducing illegal drug use (54 %), reducing air,
water, or chemical pollution (52 %),
increasing access to high - quality health care (52 %), and improving the economy and the
availability of jobs (49 %).
Recent
increases in the lake's
water use due to population growth and oil development are not currently an issue in terms of continued
availability, Clark said.
Their research showed that the number of regions with a vulnerable electricity network due to
water availability will
increase significantly by 2030.
With this
increase in the persistence of open
water and thus the
availability of prey, the whales we recorded in Wilhelmina Bay could potentially consume an additional 3,225 — 7,224 tons of krill (0.16 — 0.36 % of the total biomass) during this period (Table 1).
Abstract Higher transpiration efficiency (TE) has been proposed as a mechanism to
increase crop yields in dry environments where
water availability usually limits yield.
Such programs, best undertaken in an adaptive management framework, include, but are not limited to, reducing fire risk; managing forest diseases; improving forest establishment;
increasing forest carbon storage; improving
water availability and soil quality; improving forest diversity, structure, and resilience; and
increasing genetic and phenotypic diversity of forests.
Further, if extreme heat events
increase substantially, impacts will be negative regardless of
water availability.
If climate change exceeds the temperature target, scientists warn, there is a greater risk that the world's ice sheets will be destabilized, leading to sharply rising seas, and
increasing climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves and floods, which could pose daunting challenges for food and
water availability for growing populations.
There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh
water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of
increased resource
availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].
When using the cashews, soak them in salt
water (1 tablespoon unrefined sea salt per quart of fresh
water) for 12 - 24 hours to
increase their nutritional
availability.
Sediment CH4 release enhances substrate
availability for aerobic methanotrophy in ocean
waters and thus
increases O2 consumption.
As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced
availability of clean
water,
increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.
Similar to 6, 7, and 9 above, «We recognize that climate change, left unaddressed, is expected to threaten food production from land and sea, to limit fresh
water availability, to cause more severe weather including cyclones, droughts and floods, to
increase life - threatening illnesses, to endanger biodiversity» and so on.
3) Some recent research indicates that enhanced CO2
availability increase the efficiency of
water use by trees, because it's easier to pull sufficient amounts of the gas from the atmosphere without having to leave their stomata open and let
water escape.
Other claims, like the one reported at the end of February suggesting that the AR4 did not mention the millions of more people who will see
increases in
water availability that were reported in the cited literature along with the millions of more people who will be at risk of
water shortage, are simply not true.
Availability of resources such as usable water will also depend on changing rates of precipitation, with decreased availability in many places but possible increases in runoff and groundwater recharge in some regions like the high latitudes and
Availability of resources such as usable
water will also depend on changing rates of precipitation, with decreased
availability in many places but possible increases in runoff and groundwater recharge in some regions like the high latitudes and
availability in many places but possible
increases in runoff and groundwater recharge in some regions like the high latitudes and wet tropics.
In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased
water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes
increased competition for
water.
It is driving risks for crop yields in many regions and generally
increases dangerous weather extremes around the globe, yet in the dry Sahel there seems to be a chance that further warming might indeed enhance
water availability for farming and grazing.»
The additional atmospheric
water vapour implies
increased moisture
availability for precipitation.
Findings include that
increasing ocean acidification reduces the
availability of carbonate minerals in seawater, important building blocks for marine plants and animals, and that by 2100, 70 % of cold -
water corals, key refuges and feeding grounds for commercial fish species, will be exposed to corrosive
waters.
The report finds the northern highlands of Ethiopia around Addis Ababa, its largest city, will see
increasing migration outwards up to 2050, as deteriorating
water availability and lower crop yields drives people from rainfed cropland areas.
Focusing on specialty fruit production, Houston et al. (2018) find that overall warmer conditions and reduced
water availability may reduce net returns on crops due to
increasing farming costs, affecting yields and altering product quality.
(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and
increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on
water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and
A mere 16,400 hectares of land will be irrigated, while
water storage capacity will
increase from 3 to 24 % of the annual surface
water availability.
• «Decreased
water availability due to
increased temperature and longer periods of time between rainfall events, coupled with an
increase in societal demand is very likely to affect many sectors of the Southeast's economy.»
Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las V
Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of
increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and
water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las V
water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Based on 1705 field measurements from 21 distinct sites, a consistent and statistically significant
increase in the
availability of soil
water (11 %) was observed under elevated CO2 treatments in both drylands and non-drylands, with a statistically stronger response over drylands (17 % vs. 9 %).
By mid-century, annual average river runoff and
water availability are projected to
increase by 10 - 40 % at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas, and decrease by 10 - 30 % over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry tropics, some of which are presently
water - stressed areas.
Europe: Warmer temperatures will
increase wheat yields by up to 25 per cent in the north but
water availability will drop in the south by up to a quarter.
The extra boost from the warmer
water is adding even more energy into this storm system,
increasing the
availability and transport of moisture toward land and producing more efficient wind gusts to the surface.
Efforts to offset declining surface
water availability due to
increasing precipitation variability will be hampered by the fact that groundwater recharge will decrease considerably in some already
water - stressed regions (high confidence)[3.2, 3.4.2], where vulnerability is often exacerbated by the rapid
increase in population and
water demand (very high confidence)[3.5.1].
Decreased
water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes
increased competition for
water.
«The
water supply was also estimated to drop incrementally with each temperature
increase, though it is somewhat cushioned by the
availability of
water stored in California's reservoirs,» she writes.
All models project
increases in all four seasons.1 However,
increases in evaporation due to higher air temperatures and longer growing seasons are expected to reduce
water availability in most of the state.6