Sentences with phrase «more years of drought»

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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..

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

Over the course of the study period, emissions from wildfires in drought years alone totalled more than 1bn tonnes, Aragão says.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

In response to Ethiopia's worst drought in 50 years and the country's critical shortage of maize and wheat seed for sowing in 2016, Ethiopian organizations, seed producers, and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) partnered to deliver over 3,400 tons of high quality seed to farmers, which was sown on more than 100,300 hectares.

That's about one - fifth more land than drought forced out of production last year, researchers noted.»

But it is a different story in much of New Mexico, where more than half of the state is no longer in a drought, after nearly 10 years.

I also see perennial - nominee Meryl Streep (17 times) squeaking by The Help's equally - deserving Viola Davis for Best Actress, more for her 29 - year drought than for her spot - on impersonation of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

The drought across the Horn of Africa affected 10 and 12 million (4) people and was termed as the worst drought in more than 60 years, and Somalia due to two decades of protracted conflict and al - Shabaab menace were the worst affected.

Ford's redone 1992 Taurus arrived with the undoing of a drought and an undeniable demonstration of Southern California's wackier ways: Five years of rain and snow... Read more

Receiving this coveted honour must have had Honda's directors breathing a sigh of relief: Sure, the Japanese company's Ridgeline won Truck of the Year in 2017 and the Civic was Car of the Year in 2016, but those came on the heels of more than a decade of drought.

As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen - year - old Cielle endures a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father.

That nearly decade - long drought of new hotels will end in a splash with at least four new hotels opening in the next year (and up to 12 more on the way) according to a real estate story in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle.

I think we are all aware of the drought that has afflicted the 360 in recent years... And besides, all of that I just like Sony's exclusives more.

In the case of Nintendo and there droughts having more of a good thing spaced throughout the year can only be a good thing.

There are more local friendship - destroyers launching in 2013's eighth month than you can shake a pair of controllers at, which comes as quite a lovely lump sum following the relative drought of such titles throughout the first half of the year.

Because of our six - year drought here in Southern California, the sensation of petrichor was more vivid than ever once it actually began to rain.

Cunene region, where torrential rainfall is recovering the flora of the region after more than a year of drought

That's about one - fifth more land than drought forced out of production last year, researchers noted.»

Our studies, which are the longest - running side - by - side studies of conventional and organic farming in the nation, also show that the organic approach does not compromise yield — in fact in drought years it increases it since more carbon in the soil allows it to hold more water.

«We're going to be see more of these periods of intense droughts followed by intense rain,» which is the situation predicted for East Africa this year.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,