Sentences with phrase «recent dry years»

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Giant mines such as MMG's Century in Australia and Vedanta Resource's Lisheen site in Ireland have dried up in recent years, a gap that has only been partially filled by smaller mines and restarts.

Now, dried fruits have come a long way in recent years in both availability and quality but there are a few things to keep in mind when choosing your fruit.

Fresh cranberries can also be dried and in recent years dried cranberries have become very popular.

Until recent years, this product has been marketed chiefly in its dried state, and carloads of dried chilis are imported from Mexico to supply the coast trade.

In recent years, scientists have introduced the biosynthetic pathway for provitamin A carotenoids into staple foods, including genetically engineered Golden Rice, which contains 1.6 — 35 μg β - carotene per gram of dry rice.

In recent years, Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) has gotten the attention of eye doctors and the media regarding the symptoms that it produces, such as dry eyes, headaches and neck pain.

He said: «People work hard and pay taxes and suddenly with a few weeks notice Europe can say we need that money... The economic problems of recent years have turned Europe from quite a dry constitutional issue for most people to quite a real live issue for people.»

In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave.

A recent study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Florida found the number of American alligators observed in the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge dropped following dry years, and then appeared to recover in later non-dry years.

They report that, as in Syria, higher temperatures in recent times have exacerbated the impact of naturally dry years, making them more deadly to crops.

To add to the problem, these forests have been altered fundamentally in recent years by warmer winters, drier summers and policies to prevent fires.

According to the authors of a new study, the number of acres of land used for certified organic dry bean production has increased significantly in recent years, and a similar trend is occurring across the United States.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

In recent years, omega - 3 rich foods, such as salmon, sardines and linseed, have been hailed as skin superfoods for their ability to reduce inflammation and replenish dry and flaky skin.

For hundreds of years the juice and oil from the aloe vera plant has been used to soothe skin, but recent research shows that these powerful ingredients are also great for oily skin, dry skin and more.

December 31, 2014 • This year was the third - driest on record for the state, but recent storms, plus new groundwater regulations, have given the hardest - hit agricultural towns a glimmer of hope.

During B - D's recent interview with John Carpenter regarding his upcoming psychological horror film The Ward (which follows a ten - year dry spell...

With a pair of R - rated Universal comedies that each grossed just $ 37 million this year and the recent announcement that «Arrested Development» will be revived for a short fourth season and movie, it might sound like Bateman's success could be drying up.

Things have changed in recent years, however, as less schools have been organising overseas ski weeks, but at the same time there has been a rise in the indoor snow centres and a rejuvenation of outdoor dry slopes.

I was afraid this book might be a little dry but it was a very entertaining look at the Middle East and it touched on many of the biggest events in recent years.

I have tried many many puppy foods over the years and my recent fave to start on is Now Fresh Small Breed Puppy food, It has super tiny kibble that is easy to pick up and eat whether presoaked for first weaning, or dry as they get more used to eating solids.

I have seen a lot of attempts over the years to commodify live food and to replace fresh produce, some tragically ineffective and some downright silly — from «turtle food» commonly sold when I was a child that would virtually guarantee a baby turtle with a rubbery shell and a months - long life span to a more recent vibrating dish that was supposed to interest insectivores in dead, dried crickets.

Have fed all 4 of my recent cats for the last 21 years dry and they are going strong.

This lava may have been dry for many years, but it could very well be recent.

The facility was originally built in 1983, with a number of upgrades through the years, including the most recent construction in 2008 and 2009 of the multi-purpose Quatse Salmon Stewardship Centre, which includes an interpretive gallery, wet and dry labs and classroom.

In recent years, the weather has not been predictable, so we have experienced rain during our dry season and sunshine during the rainy season.

Given the trajectory of recent years, it's hard not to imagine the not too distant London like a bad knock - off episode of Black Mirror: with a feudal dystopia that sees on one side a comfortable investor class of propertied citizens, and on the other a set of nomadic sub-citizens who move from space to space, all mediated by an abysmally dry doublespeak.

The shock - tastic, YBA days of the Nineties have long since passed, and the Turner — now in its 28th year — has in recent times matured into a dull, dry and academic affair.

Mark Bradford, known for his large - scale abstract paintings, opened Art + Practice in February in LA's Leimert Park Village, a historic African American neighbourhood and commercial district that has seen many of its small businesses dry up in recent years.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

The researchers chose to tackle the region in part because previous, coarser - resolution models had shown that this area would be drying out, a prediction that has been borne out in the droughts and wildfires of recent years.

A warm, dry western North America occurring in combination with a cold, snowy east is not unusual, but the prevalence and persistence of this pattern in recent years have piqued the interests of climate researchers.

In recent years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP in Stuttgart has carried out a large number of experimental tests to investigate the drying behavior of wall, floor and ceiling structures with artificially induced water damage.

El Nino can cause warmer, drier summers, so tropical expansion might have contributed to the unusually dry conditions seen in the subtropical American Southwest and Mediterranean Europe in recent years.

While this week's expected precipitation is much - needed and notable given the recent extreme dryness, we're probably still on track for the driest year on record.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

Since it's essentially, and of course ironically, entirely non-scientists who make this claim, the deniers would do well to read a recent UCLA study that indicates California's current six - year severe drought could be exacerbated enough by global warming to extend the dry period for centuries.

There's been a lengthy debate in the comments threads of recent posts about whether the dry weather in much of Australia in recent years can be attributed to climate change, or is just another round in the natural cycle.

This down - and - up event, called the Younger Dryas, is only the most recent of dozens of similar flips between warm - and - wet to cool - and - dry, usually recurring every several thousand years.

The frequency of wet and dry cases in each group was examined with changes evident over the recent years.

Finally, in a case study for the hot 2003 summer we illustrate that if 2003 spring conditions in Southern - Central Europe had been as dry as in the more recent 2011 event, temperature extremes in summer would have been higher by about 1 °C, further enhancing the already extreme conditions which prevailed in that year.

A team of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States reported that the earth's land area experiencing very dry conditions expanded from well below 20 percent from the 1950s to the 1970s to closer to 25 percent in recent years.

A longer view reveals an even more startling economic impact: factoring in the dry years from 2007 - 2009, the total additional energy cost to the state's electricity users during the six years of recent drought was $ 2.4 billion.

Comparing this recent dry period to the historical «drought atlas» of the region (Old World Drought Atlas, OWDA), a paleoclimatic record based on tree - ring measurements, finds the recent drought was probably the strongest since the start of that record, around the year 1100 — at a calculated likelihood of 89 percent over the last 900 years, and a likelihood of 98 percent for the last 500 years.

* «UK rainfall shows large year to year variability, making trends hard to detect» * «While connections can be made between climate change and dry seasons in some parts of the world, there is currently no clear evidence of such a link to recent dry periods in the UK» * «The attribution of these changes to anthropogenic global warming requires climate models of sufficient resolution to capture storms and their associated rainfall.»

Besides, some of the most recent years have had less precipitation than the driest year of the dust bowl.

But the fires of recent years have been the worst for 10,000 years and, they warn, things are likely to get worse: what happened to the conifers of Alaska could happen in other places as the world warms and the sub-Arctic begins to dry, with a change to deciduous trees.

What's certain is that the availability of small phones (read: phones around the 4 - inch mark) has dried up in recent years.

It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world.