Sentences with phrase «limited by droughts»

California has a vested interest in countering the effects of climate change, from vehicle emissions, and other sources, because its economy depends on being able to have access to water (not limited by droughts and floods), as well as having stable land to use to grow crops with, both of which are currently at risk.

Steve M, did you catch my reference a couple of weeks ago to that paper showing that most trees in Canada are limited by drought, not temperatures during the growing season?

Not exact matches

Hydro - electric generators that supply about 70 % of Brazil's electricity were limited during the drought, sending spot power prices on Jan. 31, the peak of the Southern Hemisphere summer, to the maximum allowed by the government, or 822 reais ($ 362) per megawatt hour.

«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.

Before this study — the largest of its kind — conducted by a team led by Professor Dirk Inzé, scientists had little insight into the genes and genetic processes that drive some plants to limit their growth under drought conditions while others grow normally.

Ocarina of Time is one of the most hotly anticipated releases on the 3DS - which is suffering something of a good games» drought - so to limit its release, possibly resulting in hundreds or thousands of fans being shafted by shortages, would be beyond mad.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Countries are trying to divide up by 2015 the burden of emissions limits needed to stave off the worst effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and more frequent droughts.

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.

Over land evaporation is limited by water availability — and so the balance of latent and sensible heat changes with rain and drought.

[Models predict that] water - limited vegetation responds promptly to initial drought by reducing transpiration (and photosynthesis), which in turn exacerbates the drought by interrupting the supply of water that would otherwise contribute to the recycled component of precipitation.

Puzzling drought history of Spain during the past 300 years By Dr. Sebastian Lüning, Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German passages translated by P. Gosselin)[NOTE: Comment moderation will be slow over the next couple of days due to limited WIFI accesBy Dr. Sebastian Lüning, Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German passages translated by P. Gosselin)[NOTE: Comment moderation will be slow over the next couple of days due to limited WIFI accesby P. Gosselin)[NOTE: Comment moderation will be slow over the next couple of days due to limited WIFI access.

The results will help explore whether growth is limited during drought by a general C shortage, a C shortage for growth because of competition with storage, or if C shortage is not causally involved in growth cessation under drought.

(Table from the paper showing the dramatic increase in groundwater use by the Westlands Water District during drought when surface supplies are limited.)

For a region so choked by drought that they've had to take measures to limit their own water usage, you might expect some folks to pooh - pooh at the plan to pour so much water into the ground for the sake of a tree — but voices of dissent have been few and far between.

Due to more frequent droughts and declining snowpacks,» [y] ou're going to have an increasingly limited resource and increased demand from cities such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas» for water typically used by Rocky Mountain ranchers, said Rick Ridder, a veteran Democratic consultant in Denver.

Limit the size and number of these sections by using drought - tolerant plants to surround the areas of turf.