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.
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...
Not exact matches
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.