Sentences with phrase «negative impacts of a drought»

Interactive Effects of CO2, Drought and Zinc Supply on Wheat (12 July 2017) Elevated CO2 improves the growth and yield of wheat, ameliorating the negative impacts of drought and low Zn...

There is no choice but to avert the negative impacts of a drought - like situation to meet the future demand for food, feed and fibre.

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This fiscal reality leaves many countries unprotected to the negative impacts of climate change, including droughts, famine, and ecosystem loss.

Public health departments are now realizing the huge impacts of pollution, drought, stormwater runoff, and other negative factors.

-- more and more literature is making it clear that temperature increases will have a large negative impact on vegetation (natural or agricultural), significantly increasing the impact of droughts.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

Everything from the negative impacts of floods, sea - level rise, drought.

The negative phase of the PDO amplifies the impacts of La Nina droughts and increases the risk of fires from California to the Colorado Rockies to southeastern USA.

It finds many significant climate and development impacts are already being felt in some regions, and in some cases multiple threats of increasing extreme heat waves, sea level rise, more severe storms, droughts and floods are expected to have further severe negative implications for the poorest.

Higher water temperatures and changes in extremes, including floods and droughts, are projected to affect water quality and exacerbate many forms of water pollution — from sediments, nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, pathogens, pesticides and salt, as well as thermal pollution, with possible negative impacts on ecosystems, human health, and water system reliability and operating costs (high confidence).

Instead of the typical lawn that needs a lot of water and maintenance (hence more negative impacts due to the machinery), there are special drought - tolerant turf grasses that can be combined with other, less water needing plants to reduce the lawn area.

Yohe and colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Industrial Economics Inc say that they are highly confident that impacts caused by hydrologic drought — on agriculture and water availability, for example — will be increasingly negative and widespread over time, despite persistent uncertainty about projected precipitation patterns.