Sentences with phrase «seasonal flooding»

The production of more than half the country's rice and most of its fish and shrimp depends on seasonal flooding in this area; the risk, however, is that higher seas could alter the regular flooding regime, expanding the area inundated with salty water and rendering cropland unusable.

Rivers were full of food but caves have only what is washed in by seasonal floods — some small aquatic crustaceans, decomposing matter and detritus in the mud.

Viewed relative to population size, seasonal floods also caused significant displacement in sub-Saharan Africa, most notably in Niger, Chad, Sudan and South Sudan — countries with highly vulnerable populations who are also affected by conflict and drought.

Since the Andes is the principal source of sediments to the Amazon river system, the consequences of this massive reduction will be dramatic: river channels will become deeper, reducing seasonal floods which are necessary to bring fluvial sediments and nutrients to floodplain environments and provide connectivity between environments for both migrant fish and people.

The project relied on extensive field measurements of CO2, a meteorological buoy that measured wind and other variables to determine heat fluxes at the surface of the lake, and remote sensing, sonar survey, and gauging station data to map areas of the lake that exist because of seasonal flooding, expanding and contracting as part of that cycle.

Whereas the rest of the world treated financial crises as one - off catastrophes, Argentines looked at them like seasonal floods and prepared accordingly.

The ongoing seasonal flood has wrecked untold havoc on communities at the...

In the province of Beni, which experiences seasonal flooding, they built 5 - foot raised beds called camellones («camel humps» in Spanish).

Effects from climate change are on the rise, making it more important than ever to understand changes in seasonal flooding patterns.

That new approach could include strategies such as removing or setting back levees in some locations to promote seasonal flooding, strengthening regulations to reduce the discharge of contaminants into waterways, reworking the operations of some dams to facilitate fish passage, and changing federal and state laws to move conservation efforts to a broad, ecosystem - based approach.

In terms of chronic seasonal flooding, Dulce says «we learn two things, first to go up and second that flood brings cholera and malaria and damages our homes.»

Its stunning location, tucked away on an acacia island along the edge of an ancient seasonal flood plain, gives it breathtaking views of the savannah plains of the Kennedy Vlei line.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said a one - metre rise in sea level could displace 30 million people in her country, a delta nation of more than 150 million on the Bay of Bengal that faces heavy seasonal flooding and intense cyclones.

So, you're saying that places with a high Hurst coefficient are more likely to have lasting anomalies — e.g. multi-year droughts or multi-year seasonal flooding?

«Amazon floodplains and river channels — maintained by seasonal floods — promote nutrient cycling and high biological production, and support diverse biological communities as well as human populations with one of the highest per capita rates of fish consumption,» said Castello.

Viewed relative to population size, seasonal floods also caused significant displacement in sub-Saharan Africa, most notably in Niger, Chad, Sudan and South Sudan — countries

Simply measuring the amount of rainfall could track either the strength of El Niño or the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a global atmospheric feature related to the trade winds that moves north and south each year, bringing heavy rains and seasonal flooding in its path.

By making the crop more flood resistant, it could be grown on land prone to seasonal flooding that is not typically used for food crops.

Seasonal floods have carried sediments into this basin, where they have been accumulating for millennia.

Those levees, most of which are simple earthen berms, are weak and vulnerable to earthquakes, seasonal floods, and rising waters expected as a result of climate change.

Michael Bock et al. found that seasonal floods and tropical wetlands likely controlled

A context - led project that provides BRAC non-formal primary school education to children excluded from traditional schools due to seasonal flooding or other water - base...

A context - led project that provides BRAC non-formal primary school education to children excluded from traditional schools due to seasonal flooding or other water - based barriers.

AlertNet: Pakistan faces a range of threatening climate change impacts: changing monsoon patterns, melting glaciers, seasonal flooding, rising sea levels, desertification and increasing water scarcity.

Despite fears they would be unable to deal with the complex environmental problems facing Pakistan — such as changing monsoon patterns, melting glaciers, seasonal flooding, rising sea levels and desertification — the devolution went ahead.

For this reason, it's best to nail down your coverage far in advance of tropical storms or seasonal flooding.

Seasonal floods and particularly intense storms cause major problems for homes in some areas and if you've invested in a vacation rental where floodwaters are rising, you could be in for some frustration.