Sentences with phrase «rivers during the dry season»

Glaciologists report that the Gangotri glacier, which supplies 70 percent of the ice melt that feeds the Ganges River during the dry season, could disappear entirely in a matter of decades.

Glaciers around the world are shrinking and at risk of disappearing, including those in the mountains of Asia whose ice melt feeds the continent's major rivers during the dry season.

It is the Ministry of Energy's responsibility to minimize crop - withering heat waves, to prevent the melting of the glaciers that feed Asia's major rivers during the dry season, and to prevent the ice sheet melting that would inundate the river deltas and floodplains that produce much of the Asian rice harvest.

Not exact matches

During the dry season, hundreds of piranhas cram lakes off Brazil's Araguaia River and similar waterways.

DURING THE DRY SEASON in the Amazon last summer, a handful of robust young men emerged from the forest along the Envira River, near the Peru border.

Along with the nicer weather, the region opens up to visitors during the dry season in the Kimberley, where roads become passable again and the rivers and waterfalls have less water to enable swimming.

Since it was the dry season, the river was completely dry, but it would be a hotbed of activity during nighttime hours.

During the dry season, this river can fill up with tad poles and other fun creatures but may not be suitable for swimming.

You can face these rivers both during dry - and wet season, but due to the heavy rainfall during wet season the water level will be higher.

River Snorkelling is a fun and safe water activity for children and adults in just about any age - children as young as 3 years are allowed to participate during the «dry» season from May to October, provided that all children wear a personal floatation device.

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The effects of glacier retreat would become evident during the dry season, particularly in the west where glacial melt is more important to the river systems.

What could threaten world food security more than the melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia during the dry season, the rivers that irrigate the region's rice and wheat fields?

Local rivers fed by these glaciers are becoming seasonal rivers, generating conflict among the 2 million people who depend on them for water supplies during the dry season.

As Lester Brown writes in Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, mountain glaciers are melting in the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, and elsewhere, but nowhere does this melting threaten world food security more than in the Himalayas and on the Tibet - Qinghai Plateau, where the melting of glaciers could soon deprive the major rivers of India and China of the ice melt needed to sustain them during the dry season.

In the Andes, glacial melt water supports river flow and water supply for tens of millions of people during the long dry season.

Their annual ice melt sustains the major rivers of India and China — the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow — during the dry season.

A World Bank report said in February 2015 that climate change is likely to increase river salinity leading to shortages of drinking water and irrigation and significant changes in aquatic ecosystems in the southwest coastal areas during the dry season by 2050.

Without these glaciers, many Asian rivers would cease to flow during the dry season.»