Sentences with phrase «with widespread droughts»

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Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Texas, which has suffered extreme droughts in 2011, is now grappling with deadly, widespread wildfires.

The recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s had disastrous consequences for agriculture, livestock and the environment in the area, with widespread famine as a result.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

Global temperatures have increased by ∼ 0.2 °C per decade over the last three decades16, possibly leading to an acceleration of the global water cycle with more intense rainfall events17, more severe and widespread droughts18 (despite drought frequencies appearing unchanged19) and regional humidity variations20.

The phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that leads to warmer conditions may also prolong and intensify the fire season (Heyerdahl et al. 2008; Jolly et al. 2015; Abatzoglou and Williams 2016), and it is clear that years with protracted or widespread wildland fire or increased fire severity are correlated with drought (Littell et al. 2009; van Mantgem et al. 2013).

This drought has many of the attributes of past historical droughts over the region — widespread lack of storms and rainfall that would normally enter the region from the Pacific with considerable frequency.

The decade saw droughts across the world, with some of the longest and most severe in Australia (2002 and other years), East Africa (2004 and 2005, resulting in widespread loss of life) and the Amazon basin (2010).

I conclude that the observed global aridity changes up to 2010 are consistent with model predictions, which suggest severe and widespread droughts in the next 30 — 90 years over many land areas resulting from either decreased precipitation and / or increased evaporation.

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.

Evidence for widespread drought intensification is less clear and inherently difficult to confirm with available data because of the increase of time - integrated precipitation at most locations other than the subtropics.

Evidence for widespread drought intensification is less clear and inherently difficult to confirm with available data because of the increase of time - integrated precip - itation at most locations other than the subtropics.