Sentences with phrase «more drought years»

He believes that if climate change causes more drought years in Tanzania, the result will be more elderly women executed there and in other poor countries that still commonly attack supposed witches.

He believes that if climate change causes more drought years in Tanzania, the result will be more elderly women executed there and in other poor countries that still commonly attack supposed witches.

Not exact matches

The fires, which took place during a drought year and in the hillsides above the East San Francisco Bay city, killed 25 people and destroyed 2,843 homes and more than 430 apartments.

Even though I have droughts in my business, and even though I am a horrible self marketer, I somehow manage to make a little more every year.

We fear the country's exports to China are not going to pick up in 2018, as it could face the smallest crop in more than 10 years because of a persistent drought, where its harvest could plunge as much as 50 %, reported Independent Online.

Last year we decided to garden in a large community plot but had a lot of issues, tried to plant too many things, and spent way more than we had planned on coping with problems / drought / pests / neighbors etc..

Can the Cardinals win a few more close games and end a three - year bowl drought?

Winning the FA cup for the past 2 years was more relieving of the shame of the trophy drought than it felt me with pride.

But this year it's not about ending a drought or saving the manager, it's more about just winning the trophy, not because we need to win it but because we want to win it.

But the end of the trophy drought and perhaps the loosening of the transfer purse strings has led to Wenger being offered and accepting three more years at the Arsenal helm.

After more than ten years of major trophy drought, most Arsenal staffs and supporters have lowered their expectation.

Yes, there were challenges associated with that move — debts to pay, players sold without proper replacements and the whole nine yards, but we still tried to compete, even though we fell short on several occasions and none hurts more than the 2006 Champions League final but nine years of a trophy drought changed to sheer elation when the Gunners won the FA Cup in 2014.

This would not be seen as a major goal drought for any other player, but it is certainly a drought for someone who has averaged more than a goal per game for the last five years.

As you probably know, Arsenal's FA Cup drought will be only slightly more than a year on the day of the final, as we beat Hull City last year to win our first since 2005.

The Barcelona superstar has not scored in the last four games, the worst goal drought in more than two years dating back to January 2014.

Extreme drought in the Colorado River Basin last summer forced the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which manages river flows in the Western U.S., to make a historic announcement: For the 2014 water year (October 2013 through September 2014), the agency will reduce releases of water from Lake Powell — the gargantuan reservoir on the Colorado River that parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah rely on for water — by more than 750,000 acre - feet.

Coral cores stretching back more than 6,000 years reveal that climate change in the Indian Ocean may mean greater droughts in Indonesia and Australia

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

As of 3 July, more than half of the 48 contiguous US states had seen drought conditions, the largest percentage for the past 12 years, according to the US Drought Monitor service, run by the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

But scientists agree that climate change will up the ante considerably by bringing more extreme weather gyrations — searing drought one year, followed by torrential storms that can wash away cracked soil and destroy crops rather than quench their thirst.

«A real impact on people» The scientists say their calculations are preliminary and don't account for emissions from forest fires, to which the forest is more vulnerable during drought years, and drought - driven changes in soil decomposition.

A drought was defined by consecutive years with below - average streamflow punctuated by no more than one year of normal or above - average flow.

In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in crops.

Among the damage wrought: «There's been a lot less rain, a lot more drought, and the potential for increased disease,» says George Davis, a tropical medicine specialist at The George Washington University (G.W.) Medical Center in Washington, D.C., who has worked in the Yangtze River Basin and neighboring provinces for 24 years.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.

But most of the movement occurred since last year as the West's drought has become more and more extreme, said Duncan Agnew, a professor at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC - San Diego, and a study co-author.

After all, had the world known in the 1970s that drought would continue for 20 more years, maybe local governments would have done things differently, he mused.

The more recent drought accounted for more than 10 cubic kilometers of water lost per year.

Our regular rainfall started to fail and we were seeing dry years, poor yields and more droughts.»

SYDNEY (Reuters)- A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought - hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.

«We assumed the upcoming climate will be like the past 100 years — actually, probably, there will be more drought,» says ecologist David Breshears of U.A., who participated in the study.

A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought - hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.

To determine the true toll of droughts, Princeton University ecophysiologist William Anderegg and colleagues turned to the International Tree - Ring Data Bank, which stores 100 years or more of tree - ring data from more than 1500 nontropical areas of the world.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

In hydrological data, there are series of 20 or 30 years, when we would need 100 years or more to see if there is a cycle of flooding and drought.»

In California alone last year, 5,600 wildfires burned more than 600,000 acres as the drought wore on.

They have concluded that climate change from about 4000 years ago, in particular more drought - prone seasons caused by the onset of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation, was the likely main cause of mainland extinction.

«What we've come to know as «extreme drought» years — relatively rare in the time that the western U.S. has developed — are going to become more common,» Fahlund added.

The drought in California has been building for more than four years, as winter precipitation deficits slowed streams to a trickle and sent reservoir levels dipping, while unusually warm temperatures increased water demand.

The glaciers» importance only grows during drought, which climate scientists expect to be more frequent and severe in coming years.

The drought, they found, will lead this year to 32 percent more acres of land laid fallow, an increase in groundwater pumping to make up for the lack of water in rivers and reservoirs, and total job losses of 18,600.

Number 189 is just one of the more than 100 million trees researchers estimate died during California's five - year drought, which ended this spring.

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years — a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new research.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

El Niño will create a mixed bag in terms of precipitation too, with increased odds that Southern California will see more precipitation this year — though it's too early to know if that will come in the form of snow — while the Pacific Northwest is likely to be drier and could see its drought deepen.

«What is particularly compelling to me is the observed decoupling of fire and deforestation; they used to go hand in hand as fire was the cheapest tool in the deforestation process, but in recent years fires are observed more outside the deforestation regions, especially during drought years.