Sentences with phrase «regional drought»

Other risks include regional drought, ocean acidification, a reduction in sunlight and the end of blue skies.

Jordan is among the world's most water - poor nations, and a new, comprehensive analysis of regional drought and land - use changes in upstream Syria suggests the conditions could get significantly worse.

The study, published in Palgrave Communications, found that climate variations such as regional drought and global temperature played little part in the causation of conflict and displacement of people in East Africa over the last 50 years.

«We already know that on the one hand, reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, and on the other hand, forest loss can intensify regional droughts.

(08/19/2013) Around 2 million people face food insecurity in northern Namibia and southern Angola as the worst regional drought in decades takes its toll, according to the UN.

However the study found that variations in refugee numbers, people forced to cross international borders, are significantly linked to the incidence of severe regional droughts as well as political instability, rapid population growth and low economic growth.

New research from Northeastern University marine and environmental sciences professor David Kimbro and graduate student Hanna Garland, published in PLOS ONE, links the deterioration of oyster reefs in Florida's Matanzas River Estuary (MRE) to a population outbreak of carnivorous conchs and high water salinity — or saltiness — caused by a prolonged regional drought.

The study predicts that a continuation of these trends will likely exacerbate regional drought - induced disturbances, especially during regional dry climate phases associated with strong El Nino events.

The same thing holds for our present extrapolations of North Atlantic models: they simply do not yet take into account such fluctuations as El Niño and the North Atlantic Oscillation, nor freak «random» combinations of weather that set up self - perpetuating regional droughts like the Dust Bowl.

She oversees a staff that coordinates all NIDIS regional drought early warning systems around the country, ensuring that regional successes and lessons learned are connected and linked to each other to create an integrated national drought early warning information system.

The water stress created by regional drought may be the dominant contributor to these widespread increases in tree mortality rates across tree species, sizes, elevations, longitudes and latitudes.

«We already know that, on the one hand, reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, and, on the other hand, forest loss can intensify regional droughts.

It would place billions of people at risk from extreme temperatures, flooding, regional drought, and food shortages.

Rising sea levels will make coastal areas more prone to flooding, regional droughts are likely to increase in frequency and intensity, summer months are likely to have more extreme - heat days, and thunderstorms and other weather events are likely to become more intense in some parts of the world.

Frehley and a team of other dogs were trained to trace the smell of salamander scat and distinguish between male and female salamanders, helping researchers estimate how many of the elusive species have survived a regional drought.

Similar issues apply to helping out farmers in the developing world — for example, while shiploads full of grain might seem like a good response to regional drought, in practice that may be the worst option as it destroys local markets for poor farmers who then can't afford to buy seed and fertilizer for the next growing season.

Regardless of whether you believe that we humans, collectively, have adversely altered the climate, regional drought is currently a widespread and serious problem.

Sheffield, J. & Wood, E. F. Characteristics of global and regional drought, 1950 — 2000: analysis of soil moisture data from off - line simulation of the terrestrial hydrologic cycle.

Resilient design is the intentional design of buildings, landscapes, communities, and regions in order to respond to natural and manmade disasters and disturbances — as well as long - term changes resulting from climate change — including sea level rise, increased frequency of heat waves, and regional drought.

The large uncertainties in global - mean temperature projections percolate into local climate impact projections, because the frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall, regional droughts, or tropical cyclones change with the global - mean temperature (Seneviratne et al. 2016).

That's why I thought it was incorrect to infer anything about a climate change, much less what forced it, from a regional drought that was less than a decade.

Hogg, E. H., Brandt, J. P. & Michaelian, M. Impacts of a regional drought on the productivity, dieback, and biomass of western Canadian aspen forests.