Sentences with phrase «ravaged by drought»

The Hattah lakes in Australia are ravaged by drought and are part of a system of semi-permanent freshwater lakes within Australia's Murray Darling Basin.

By 2055, the planet has been ravaged by drought and storm, coastlines have flooded, millions have been dislocated or thrust into conflict.

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In the nation's heartland the searing heat was accompanied by a ruinous drought that ravaged crops and prompted talk of a dust bowl to rival that of the 1930s.

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-.

The South Is On Fire And National Media Couldn't Care Less: Ravaged by months of drought, huge swaths of the southeast United States are on fire, but you wouldn't know it judging by national media coverage.

Illegal encroachment, grazing and drought have ravaged the Country's forests, threatening water supply as the main water towers face eminent danger from not only illegal logging, but also invasion by livestock herds.

The drought ravaged Syria's farmlands, led to several crop failures, and drove hundreds of thousands of people from predominantly Sunni rural areas into coastal cities traditionally dominated by the Alawite minority.

Zimbabwe, a country ravaged in the last decade by hyperinflation, joblessness, and drought, was once one of southern Africa's largest food producers.