Sentences with phrase «year drought threatens»
THE three - year drought threatens to wipe out the last of the Muir Woods coho salmon that make their way each year from the Pacific to spawn in a freshwater creek running through the redwoods near San Francisco
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.
A few years down the road, Balaji hopes his current work preventing drought from threatening lives will be self - sustaining and he will be able to move on to work on his dream project.
Those most critically affected by the state's four - year drought are the Central Valley's farmers, whose livelihoods are threatened.
A finger - sized fish that smells like a cucumber is threatening California's water supplies just as the state emerges from a devastating drought that has lasted seven years.
Prof Peirs Forster (Univ of Leeds, UK; IPCC lead author) led a 2012 study of the probability of extreme drought across Asia, in which this was found to be liable to occur within 10 years on a scale potentially threatening global food security.
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.
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.
It followed a two - year drought that severely threatened local water supplies.
Water losses in four years of ongoing drought threaten the well - being of some 41,000 square miles of the state's forests, a study finds.
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.