Sentences with phrase «widespread crop failures in»

In response to widespread crop failures in the Midwest, the United States Department of Agriculture began promoting purebred puppies as a fool - proof «cash» crop.

Unseasonable droughts have caused widespread crop failure in recent years.

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At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.

The poor climate may been one of many factors contributing to societal changes of the era, including widespread crop failures and famines in Central Asia that may have triggered migrations from the area to China and Eastern Europe, thus helping spread an episode of plague (depicted in this 15th century painting) that originated there.

It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers.»

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Periods of very low temperatures throughout history have resulted in mass crop failures and widespread famines.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

Dr. Huber «wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready ® (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure» in January.

One such drought, the «Dust Bowl» of the 1930s, resulted in widespread crop failure, dust storms, and the displacement of thousands of people.

If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.

The First Lady said the country has witnessed the adverse effects of environmental degradation including decline and extinction of thousands of animal and plant species, phenomenal drying up of rivers and receding water levels in our water reservoirs, and widespread crop failure that threatens food security.

Secondly, the 1810s were affected greatly by the eruption of Tambora in 1815 and another big eruption in 1809 — these caused widespread crop failures (1816 was the «year without a summer» — Henry Stommel wrote a great book on this).