Sentences with phrase «to worsen droughts»

Furthermore, the researchers found that people living in counties that rarely experience drought had an increased risk of mortality and cardiovascular diseases during worsening drought conditions.

Climate change will bring worsening droughts that threaten crops.

More evaporation can dry out the land more quickly, potentially worsening droughts.

He is wrong when he implies that climate change has not worsened drought in North America in recent years.

California, for instance, has been suffering worsening droughts for the past few years, yet water rights favor farming, specifically in Palo Verde Valley, making the state attractive for the Middle Eastern dairy firm.

New research finds worsening droughts will sap the biblical waterway, which is already under pressure from agriculture and a growing population

Right now, pumping up the haze in the stratosphere to block some sunlight looks the most feasible, the working group concluded, but this approach still has serious and inevitable drawbacks such as worsening drought.

But by looking at other metrics, Trenberth says climate change worsened the drought and its impacts.

Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Tonga experienced worsening drought.

This mechanism leads to worsened drought even if rainfall patterns are unchanged.

The 300 - page report cited worsening drought conditions in California and throughout the West that may be more than their ecosystems can handle: «There is growing consensus that extreme precipitation events will increase in frequency, and warmer temperatures will exacerbate the impacts of drought on forests and rangelands in the future.»

Such drying is a feature of human - caused climate change in that human - forced warming due to fossil fuel burning increases evaporation rates and related stress to forests even as it drives fundamental alterations to precipitation patterns that can substantially worsen drought and wildfire intensity.

So, yes, climate change has undoubtedly worsened the drought, which was Holdren's point in the first place.

All that heat has worsened the drought in California and the Southwest.

New research finds worsening droughts will sap the biblical waterway, which is already under pressure from agriculture and a growing population

But the South and West will have less moisture than usual, which could worsen drought conditions in some areas.

Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says

They face challenges from an increasing population; land that's overfarmed and worn out; and climate change, bringing with it worsening drought or increased rainfall.

When people in Africa are poor and starving and there are no crops left to eat due to the deforestation and global warming leading to ever - worsening droughts, they can not be blamed if they kill the last zebra walking through the bush for their family to eat.

The U.S. military is taking steps to limit the chance that worsening droughts, rising seas and melting Arctic ice will hasten uprisings that threaten national interests

Climate change has been blamed for worsening a drought that inflamed warfare in Syria, leading to an unplanned exodus of millions from that country.

Results: Increased air pollution changes clouds in ways that both worsen drought and increase storm intensity, according to new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

As temperatures rise from the increase of greenhouse gases, evaporation rates from soils increase, which can worsen drought and dry out vegetation, creating ample fuel for fires.

There is greater evaporation, which can worsen droughts.

For the study, the researchers identified periods of «non-drought», «full drought» and «worsening drought» using the U.S. Drought Monitor Data compiled across 22 western states from 2000 to 2013.

Global warming, worsening droughts, vanishing groundwater and growing populations will make the U.S. more vulnerable to water shortages in the 21st century, experts say.

According to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the next couple of weeks are likely to be warmer and drier than normal — ideal conditions for expanding and worsening the drought.

Two months after former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern warned that developing countries would be worst hit by climate change, the most developing developing country of them all has issued its own weather forecast: rising temperatures, worsening drought and a slate of «extreme weather events.»

Given the studies projecting how greenhouse - driven warming will worsen drought and heat in regions that already tend to be dry and hot, it's encouraging to see signs in one hard - hit African region of farmers» capacity to shift practices to deal with intensifying climatic stresses.

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.

In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world's repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions.

Soybeans may worsen drought in the Amazon rainforest.

It stresses crops accustomed to a milder climate and can worsen drought.

For example, increasingly frequent and intense heat events lead to more heat - related illnesses and deaths and, over time, worsen drought and wildfire risks, and intensify air pollution.

Studies from the International Energy Agency, numerous American scientists, and countless other peer - reviewed scientific papers show that waiting until 2020 to begin aggressive emissions reduction would cause irreversible climate change, including more severe tropical storms, worsening droughts, and devastation affecting communities and businesses across America.

While Burman didn't actually utter the words climate change in her comments this week, her insistence on the urgent need to ramp up conservation is in line with the overwhelming scientific consensus of how climate change is expected to worsen droughts in the Southwest in coming decades.

Mounting scientific data suggests that decades of human activity is altering weather patterns, warming and rising oceans, worsening droughts, melting glaciers and more.

But, after years of political gridlock on the climate issue, coupled with rising seas and worsening droughts, one thing is clear: the nation simply can not afford to wait any longer to take action.

JOYCE: All that heat has worsened the drought in California and the Southwest.