Sentences with phrase «other effects of drought»

It is a severe and large - scale crisis comprising malnutrition, food insecurity and other effects of drought which will require life - saving aid for an additional 1.6 million people.

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Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other harmful effects of climate change.

Prepare for and manage the effects of drought and other challenges.

Pollution - seeded clouds may have worldwide effects across all kinds of weather — from droughts in the South due to less frequent rain to other, more severe storms.

The hope is that the hubs will help minimise the harmful effects of climate change, such as excess storms and droughts, by helping scientists, farmers, ranchers and forestland - owners talk to each other.

A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.

Warmer winters, prolonged drought, and other effects of global warming multiply the threat of fire in these communities

In other words, can biodiversity help to avert the worst effects of droughts, heat waves and extremely wet weather?

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.

On the other hand, another effect of global warming, namely massive, continent - wide, intense, persistent drought, could begin at any time and have catastrophic effects on agriculture, leading to widespread famine within a few years.

The social effects of global warming will include a spread of infectious disease in some areas and drought and starvation in other areas.

Lack of health, transportation and other basic infrastructure will greatly multiply the effects of drought, flooding and higher temperatures.

Others suspected that human activity had at least aggravated the effects of drought — that over-grazing and plowing had destroyed vegetative cover, so that soil could be whipped away by the wind.

My current work is on water - supply and food supply scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support continuing growth, with some unable to continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.

As the effects of climate change become a growing concern, coffee production is increasingly impacted by rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, droughts and other environmental issues, including pests and diseases.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

If the countries make good on their pledges, they will dramatically reduce the emissions scientists link to global warming, but not enough to hold temperatures to levels scientists say are needed to minimize risks of drought, flooding and other catastrophic effects.

The reality is that because of the extraordinary speed at which changes are happening (this year's storms, fires, droughts, heat waves, ecological disruptions and other effects compared to last year's or the year before, for example) the speed at which we have to act is extraordinary, too.

droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, global ice cover, and rainfall are about the same (maybe a slight increase in total rainfall); forests and all other vegetation that has been studied are growing faster; actual effects of putative ocean pH change are negligible to non-existent.

You see, climate change currently presents one of the most significant threats to wildlife and their habitats, and we are already observing the effects of higher temperatures, rising sea levels, warming oceans, droughts and other changes.

Almost 100 organizations Thursday launched a worldwide petition that calls for dramatically curbing greenhouse - gas emissions and helping vulnerable communities prepare for rising sea levels, more - frequent storms, longer droughts and other effects of global warming.

The steering of Hurricane Sandy into the New York and New Jersey metro areas, the extreme killer cold in Eastern Europe and Russia, the «year without a Spring» and the very mild winters, dome of the features of drought, and other effects may be «the new normal» owing to a basic shift in how air currents are set up in a high - CO2 world.

That could, among other effects, produce a disruptive mix of intensified flooding and withering droughts in the world's prime agricultural regions.

Although the drying may be less extreme than in some current estimates, droughts will certainly increase, researchers said, and other aspects of climate change could have severe effects on vegetation.»

You can use them to monitor your landscape, or to help you check for the effects of drought and other agricultural symptoms of global warming.

the effect of economic conditions, including the effects of drought and other weather - related conditions and fluctuations in agricultural real estate values, on agricultural mortgage lending and borrower repayment capacity;