Sentences with phrase «risk of drought»

The warmer climate therefore increases risks of both drought − where it is not raining − and floods − where it is − but at different times and / or places.

Help identify areas most at risk of drought or flooding to protect property, infrastructure and ensure security of supply.

Even as some regions of the planet experience more intense storms, others will suffer a greater risk of drought during warmer months, the study concluded.

A warmer climate therefore increases risks of both drought — where it is not raining — and floods — where it is — but at different times and / or places.

With an ongoing weakening of the AMOC, Delworth expects us to «see more likelihood of tropical storms and increasing risk of drought in North America.»

Higher temperatures and an increased risk of drought on the U.S. west coast result in nitrogen by - products that cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, especially among the region's rural and urban poor

The scientists therefore recommend that spruce forests, which are at high risk of drought stress, be replaced with mixed - species forests silver and Douglas firs, with silver firs being the more suitable tree for higher altitudes in the Black Forest.

The state is seeing increased flooding, sharpening risk of drought and other impacts of warming on its agricultural industry.

Consequences include rising temperatures and accelerating sea level rise as well as growing risks of drought, heat waves, heavy rainfall intensified storms, and species loss.

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.

Regions that are blue or green will likely be at lower risk of drought, while those in the red and purple spectrum could face more unusually extreme drought conditions.

The Southwest is considered one of the more sensitive regions in the world for increased risk of drought caused by climate change [4].

What's more, trees and flowering plants in wetter forests not often considered to be at risk of drought are endangered by their profligacy with water.

The increase in temperatures, the editorial said, «will be accompanied by rising sea levels, more intense precipitation events in some countries and increased risk of drought in others and adverse effects on agriculture, health and water balance.»

«The purpose of the summit is to get everybody round the table and decide what actions need to be taken against the risk of droughts,» Ms Spelman said.

Water availability: Intact tropical forests ensure the stability of local and regional weather, generating more rain than cleared forests and thereby reducing the risk of drought.

The U.S. and Australia also share a changing global climate that is increasing the risk of drought.

But some localised losses can be expected — particularly in the east of England, where lower rainfall may increase the risk of drought.

«Atlantic / Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires: New study shows that difference in water temperature between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans together with global warming impact the risk of drought and wildfire in southwestern North America.»

They suggest that plants may associate hot weather with a risk of drought, and so grow and flower quickly to reproduce before they die.

Injecting particles into the atmosphere would deflect some of the sun's incoming radiation, but a new study predicts it would also likely alter tropical storm patterns in the Atlantic and increase the risk of drought in Africa.

Now they finally run a major story on the devastating drought sweeping the nation, one they compare to «the Dust Bowl of the 1930's,» but again, no mention of global warming — even though increased risk of drought is a well - known prediction from climate scientists.

Still more evaporation from the soil and an increased risk of drought.

When these past megadroughts are compared side - by - side with computer model projections of the 21st century, both the moderate and business - as - usual emissions scenarios are drier, and the risk of droughts lasting 30 years or longer increases significantly.

Even though daily average rainfall may decrease (just like elsewhere in the region) the risk of droughts in southern Central America could actually go down.

It moderates the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes, lessens the risk of drought in North America, and assures the health of monsoons in India.

But these same forests absorb around 25 % of carbon emissions from factory chimneys, power stations and car exhausts; they play a vital role in stabilising local and regional weather, and they reduce the risk of drought.

Australia is already the driest inhabited continent on Earth2 — and scientists expect it to become drier.3 With rising temperatures, decreasing rainfall and inflow, and declining soil moisture comes greater risk of drought.3, 4

However, state of the art (but still incomplete and imperfect) climate models do consistently predict that precipitation will become more variable, with increased risks of drought and floods at different times and places.

«For property and casualty insurers, climate change represents an important challenge because the rising seas, the increased risk of drought, fire and floods, and the stronger storms that may occur will have a huge impact on the claims of the people insured.»

As Columbia University notes, «An increase in evaporative drying means that even regions expected to get more rain, including important wheat, corn, and rice belts in the western United States and southeastern China, will be at risk of drought.»

«California's warming trend is driving an increase in the risk of drought,» said study co-author Daniel Swain, a doctoral student in climate science at Stanford University in California.

In the Sahel region the Sahara desert is encroaching and the increased risk of drought is compounding existing patterns of water scarcity.

Researchers have identified significant changes in the patterns of extreme wet and dry events that are increasing the risk of drought and flood in central India, one of the most densely populated regions on Earth.

However, if the chance of a drought is greater in the world with climate change, then we can say that climate change increased the risk of drought.

Summer dryness indicates a greater risk of drought.

The rain stayed south of the Twin Cities, and barring a major shift in the pattern (always possible) I'm starting to worry a little about the risk of drought for central and northern Minnesota as we head into June.

Supporters say limiting heat - trapping gases is needed to protect human health and the environment; the state faces severe economic and environmental disruption from rising sea levels; increased risks of drought and wildfire, and other climate - change impacts.

As a result, the subtropics have migrated poleward, which has increased the risk of drought in such highly populated parts of the world as the Mediterranean Basin and southwest Asia.

However, human activities may be jeopardizing this critical resource; new research by Douville and Plazzotta confirms that human emissions of greenhouse gases have already begun to alter the water cycle, resulting in a drying trend and increased risk of drought in certain parts of the world.