Sentences with phrase «with years of drought»

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

Tracey Johnson: Yes, however, with another year of drought, we are actively planning to step up our campaign.

Not exact matches

If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

«Malawi has shown progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization following two years of drought, with a rebound in growth and inflation reduced to single...

Although cocoa prices scored the most impressive quarterly gain, with futures up 35 % on production issues in West Africa, soybeans were a standout as well, with futures up 9.8 % as a drought harmed crops in Argentina while years of bumper harvests in the United States were set to recede in 2018.

The fall in rural exports has been especially sharp, with the value of exports in the June quarter down by over 27 per cent on the level of a year ago, largely reflecting the effect of the drought.

Over the year, food prices rose by 4 1/2 per cent, with above - average price rises being recorded for a number of commodities affected by the drought.

In Kenya, for example, there's drought coupled with the after - effects of the post-election violence a year ago.

Trending Story: US wine exports set record as California drought persists Exports of wine from the US jumped by 16 % last year, show official figures that offer a boost to California's winemakers facing their worst drought in memory... Today's News Direct to consumer market key for Oregon wine Oregon wineries, with their premium - priced Pinot noir, -LSB-...]

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.

Trending Story: California Governor Declares Drought State Of Emergency With California facing water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state history, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today proclaimed a State of Emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for these drought conditions... Today's News Wine suppliers must not -LSB-..Of Emergency With California facing water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state history, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today proclaimed a State of Emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for these drought conditions... Today's News Wine suppliers must not -LSB-..of Emergency and directed state officials to take all necessary actions to prepare for these drought conditions... Today's News Wine suppliers must not -LSB-...]

Northern California had a good season, with precipitation totals approaching normal after four years of drought conditions...

Last year we decided to garden in a large community plot but had a lot of issues, tried to plant too many things, and spent way more than we had planned on coping with problems / drought / pests / neighbors etc..

The Gunners won the FA Cup for two years in a row but step into the new season on the back of a decade long drought with the Premier League trophy.

Arsene Wenger masterminded the end of a nine year trophy drought with a remarkable comeback victory over Hull City in 2014 — but it was far from easy.

I have been impressed with Wenger lately, AND TRUST ME, I wanted him out a couple years back... But I think it was staring us all in the face and now it's clear to see; our drought and selling of our best players started when we spent half a billion on our STADIUM... and now that, that's paid we are building and buying WorldClass players.

Despite not starting a Grand Slam event since he missed the cut at the 2015 PGA Championship (with MCs at that year's British and U.S. Opens after a T17 at the Masters), one bookmaker has Woods at 5 - 1 to break his majors drought on the 10th anniversary (if not before) of his last major victory: the 2008 U.S. Open.

With the influx of money that bettors place on Chicago yearly, sportsbooks don't want to see the Cubs end their World Series drought as MGM Resorts has reported $ 1.5 M liability on the Cubs this year.

Winning the FA cup for the past 2 years was more relieving of the shame of the trophy drought than it felt me with pride.

Walcott is crap in the middle and crap on the wings, get rid of that burden that's been here for 10 years in conjunction with our title drought.

Nigeria ended a 19 - year Africa Cup of Nations title drought Sunday with a 1 - 0 final victory over Burkina Faso at Soccer City thanks to a late first - half goal from Sunday Mba.

Get rid of him and his wages this summer, it's been 10 years of chances in conjunction with our title drought.

However, should Arsenal lose a player of Sánchez's quality to a rival club, breaking the 12 - year drought of not winning the Premier League will not get any easier, as highlighted by the departures of stars such as Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri, who all of course went onto win the title with other clubs.

City have never conquered in Europe but it is not just the club suffering a drought in the competition, with Guardiola failing to make a huge impact on the biggest stage of all in recent years — even with a star - studded Bayern Munich team, who made short work of their Bundesliga competition.

Yes, there were challenges associated with that move — debts to pay, players sold without proper replacements and the whole nine yards, but we still tried to compete, even though we fell short on several occasions and none hurts more than the 2006 Champions League final but nine years of a trophy drought changed to sheer elation when the Gunners won the FA Cup in 2014.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

Along the U.S. West Coast, the jet stream was shifted hundreds of kilometers north last winter, which had the effect of dousing the Pacific Northwest with extraordinary precipitation while Southern California experienced its fourth straight year of drought.

With hurricanes, wildfires and drought, 2017 is chock - full of extreme event candidates for next year's crop of BAMS attribution studies.

An «urgent call» to understand risks of stress Researchers who were not involved with the new study said it was a good initial estimate of the impact of last year's drought but cautioned that the ultimate effect of the dry spell is not yet clear.

It finds that heat stress concurrent with drought or water excess can explain about 40 % of the changes in wheat yields from one year to another.

A drought was defined by consecutive years with below - average streamflow punctuated by no more than one year of normal or above - average flow.

In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in crops.

And when compared with a 1000 - year reconstruction of past droughts based on more than 1800 tree - ring chronologies collected across the continent, droughts forecast by nearly every one of those models are «unprecedented,» even if CO2 emissions are dramatically reduced, researchers say.

We got a glimpse of what the future might be like this year, with drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan devastating crops.

With California in its fifth year of severe drought and many western states experiencing another year of unusually dry conditions, plants are stressed.

The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region.

A five - year drought in parts of Texas and Oklahoma has dramatically broken — with floods that have burst dams, washed away houses and taken at least five lives.

But with the frequency of droughts expected to triple in the next 100 years, researchers fear the resulting variability and stress to agriculture and civilization could prove destabilizing for many regions.

La Niña behind worst African drought in 60 years Almost 10 million people in the Horn of Africa faced a humanitarian emergency as the region grappled with its worst drought for 60 years.

This year's fire risk comes on the heels of a severe drought in eastern and southeastern Brazil, where the satellite data showed a continued reduction in rainfall and a drawdown of groundwater associated with lower than normal precipitation.

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

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.

El Niño will create a mixed bag in terms of precipitation too, with increased odds that Southern California will see more precipitation this year — though it's too early to know if that will come in the form of snow — while the Pacific Northwest is likely to be drier and could see its drought deepen.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

«National drought policies with effective early warning systems would be crucial in promoting vulnerability assessment and risk mitigation measures, particularly in light of the devastating droughts witnessed in Africa this year that have left more than 20 million people on the verge of starvation,» she added.

Even with several heavy rainfall events from El Niño conditions toward the end of the year, nearly 88 percent of the state continued to experience the ongoing drought at year's end.

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).

The recent drought had «nearly complete tree mortality across many size and age classes» whereas «most of the patchy mortality in the 1950s was associated with trees [greater than] 100 years old.»

With another big film, Rebel in the Rye (directed and written by Danny Strong and co-starring Nicholas Hoult) coming to theaters this fall, a recent wrap on The Year of Spectacular Men (written by her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother), and production starting on the Netflix romantic comedy Set It Up, a work drought does not seem to be in Zoey's future.