Sentences with phrase «threatened by drought»

US researchers have been looking, once again, at the long - term consequences of climate change and the damage to landscapes increasingly threatened by drought.

Forests worldwide threatened by drought.

The surviving Hirola are threatened by drought, poaching and habitat loss.

«Forests worldwide threatened by drought.»

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

Not exact matches

Southern tidewater goby has only been found in three lagoons in San Diego County, making this new species critically endangered, and the researchers call for conservation actions to prevent possible extinction as the habitat is threatened by California's drought.

Those most critically affected by the state's four - year drought are the Central Valley's farmers, whose livelihoods are threatened.

The tidewater goby lives in coastal lagoons and is threatened by coastal development and drought.

But these natural havens are increasingly threatened by the changing frequency and intensity of drought, both of which are byproducts of climate change.

The fact that it is endemic drought that threatens the Great Salt Lake in Utah, home to Smithson's beautiful, coiled extension of land into water, is darkly ironic: one human alteration to the landscape negatively impacted by another.

If this trend is not halted soon, many millions of people will be at risk from extreme events such as heat waves, drought, floods and storms, our coasts and cities will be threatened by rising sea levels, and many ecosystems, plants and animal species will be in serious danger of extinction.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

In fact, the drought in the U.S. southeast this past year threatened to close nuclear plants in North Carolina and literally cut Georgia's hydroelectric power generation by half.

Somalia's fragile environmental resources and the survival of thousands now are threatened by a severe drought in the eastern region of the country.

Floods and droughts will also impact health by threatening sources of clean water and food.

This claim is not only absurd, but unethical and cruel in its disregard for the world's poorest people who are threatened in this century and next by sea - level rise, storm surges, disappearing glaciers, flooding, drought, and mass species extinctions.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

We can imagine a situation 30 years hence in which the Chinese Communist Party's grip on power is threatened by chaotic protests ignited by a devastating drought and famine.

Our work optimizing effective water infrastructure is important to prepare the rivers of the Mid-Atlantic for the more frequent and intense floods and longer droughts threatened by climate change.

See how global warming is expected to worsen drought it Australia — and find other hot spots threatened by extremely dry conditions on the Climate Hot Map.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

Illegal encroachment, grazing and drought have ravaged the Country's forests, threatening water supply as the main water towers face eminent danger from not only illegal logging, but also invasion by livestock herds.

In 2007, the Nobel - Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that global warming is primarily caused by human activity and, if left unchecked, will threaten communities with worsening heat waves, drought, sea - level rise and extreme weather by the end of the century.

In order of seniority, the seven feedbacks that seem outstanding are: Water vapour — rising by ~ 7 % per 1.0 C of warming; Albedo loss — due mostly to cryosphere decline; Microbial peat - bog decay — due to rising CO2 affecting ecological dynamics; Desiccation of tropical and temperate soils — due to SAT rise and droughts; Permafrost melt — due to SAT rise plus loss of snow cover, etc; Forest combustion — due to SAT rise, droughts, pest responses, etc; Methyl clathrates [aka methane hydrates] now threatened by rising sea - temperatures, increased water column mixing, etc..

The outdoor recreation industry generates $ 887 billion in consumer spending and 7.6 million jobs each year and is directly impacted by shorter winter seasons, droughts, floods, and extreme weather events, all of which threaten the industry's bottom line.

«If rainfall is reduced even further as a result of deforestation, it could threaten the survival of the remaining forest by increasing the trees» sensitivity to drought.»

The suburbs of Los Angeles, Denver, and other cities are threatened by fire — great conflagrations driven by increasing drought or hot temperatures.