Sentences with phrase «years of drought over»

What we are speaking of is years of drought over large areas occasionally interrupted by periods of severe flooding.

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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.

The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.

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.

These contrasts, however, are likely to diminish over the year ahead as the world economy recovers and the effects of the drought dissipate.

The impact of the weak world economy and the drought over the first half of 2003 are evident in the latest national accounts, which show that real GDP rose by 0.1 per cent in the June quarter and 2.0 per cent over the year (Table 10).

Weak growth in the world economy and the drought in Australia have seen export earnings decline over the past couple of years (Graph 44).

Although Kaplan says the recent stretch of drought and bad weather will have a noticeable impact on the produce industry as a whole over the next year, Professional Produce stands prepared to increase its presence in the marketplace.

providing $ 25.8 million over 4 years to help manage the effects of pest animals and weeds in drought - affected areas, and an additional $ 50 million for pest animals and weeds across Australia.

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.

This year we are really seeing the effects of how people farmed through the drought — cluster weights are all over the place.

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.

Many of us felt, on top of losing all our best players year after year during that period, not to mention a never ending trophy drought, we had little time to put faith into a player testing the waters all over again.

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.

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

Ending a drought of 9 years in search of silverware, the longevity of failure is over.

Please do nt suggest that wenger will prove us wrong by winning the fa cup because thats a trophy thats been long over due for the damage of the last nine year drought, if man city was still in it woudnt an advantage arsenal, in wenger we rust!

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.

Over the past 15 years, parts of the western U.S. have experienced severe drought conditions and an increasing number of wildfires that take a toll on people and ecosystems.

By careful measurements of the population of two species on one tiny island over the course of major weather changes such as El Niño events and droughts, the Grants were able to show that evolutionary changes in beak size and body size can occur in as little as a couple of years.

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

One scenario already found that the mean natural flow at Lees Ferry, Ariz., is projected to decrease by 9 percent over the next 50 years and experience an increased frequency and duration of drought.

The study, published online today in the Journal of Climate, describes what future rain will look like in a typical year, but doesn't comment on how often drought might loom over southern California.

According to USGS estimates, 153,000 metric tons of nutrients flowed down the rivers to the northern Gulf of Mexico in May, an increase of 94,900 metric tons over last year's 58,100 metric tons, when the region was suffering through drought.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Although droughts have been a natural part of the year - to - year variations in the Amazon's climate, both the frequency and severity of droughts in the rainforest have been increasing over the last decade because of climate change, Aragão says:

Over the course of the study period, emissions from wildfires in drought years alone totalled more than 1bn tonnes, Aragão says.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

A new study finds that, while rates of deforestation have sharply fallen in the Amazon over the past decade, the number of wildfires affecting the region has remained stubbornly high — particularly in drought years.

In response to Ethiopia's worst drought in 50 years and the country's critical shortage of maize and wheat seed for sowing in 2016, Ethiopian organizations, seed producers, and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) partnered to deliver over 3,400 tons of high quality seed to farmers, which was sown on more than 100,300 hectares.

A little over 2 percent of the state is in exceptional drought, down from 44 percent a year ago.

The recent extreme drought of 2012 across America's breadbasket has brought the seriousness of a shortage of water to a crescendo as the Kansas Geological Survey reported that average water levels dropped nearly a third of the total decline since 1996... over a period of only two years!

The most obvious difference between this year and that event, clearly visible in the animation, is the «blob» of warm water off the west coast of North America, a symptom of the relentless high pressure pattern that has kept the West hot and dry over much of the last few years and led to the deep drought in California.

As part of the study, Bloom, now an assistant professor at Illinois State University, developed a mathematical model to reconstruct drought over thousands of years using diatoms.

«Today, 110 of the 169 countries that declared in 2013 that they are affected by land degradation or drought have expressed interest in recovering large areas of degraded over the next 12 years, under a special global initiative, the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Programme,» she observed.

While the number of sugar daddies on SeekingArrangement continues to grow, many feel there's been a Sugar Daddy drought over the last couple years.

It explores the diversity of its landscape from the seas to the arid interior, the effects of flood, drought and bushfire and the impact of over 200 years of European settlement on the land, its plant and animals.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

With a drought ravaging the U.S. experts say we should brace ourselves for a jump of upwards of 4 % over the next year.

The low Canadian dollar and a drought in California and Mexico — where much of the produce Canadians enjoy over the winter is grown — are largely to blame for the situation, including the near - double - digit price tag for a head of cauliflower earlier this year.

California has been in a drought for a little over 6 years causing most of our reservoirs to be below 50 % capacity.

See how or unique habitat and the fascinating wildlife that lives in it, have evolved over many years to withstand long periods of drought and wildfire.

Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama have experienced severe droughts over the past year due to a particularly intense El Niño weather phenomenon, reducing the availability of water and possibly vegetation that howler monkeys feed on.

Although these maps only depict the water shortages over the past five years, there are plenty of places in the United States that have been experiencing non-stop drought conditions for over five years, which affects the area's hydrology and ecosystem.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

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,

As you know, more extreme and extended droughts over bigger areas is one of the most basic predictions of climate science, and has been discussed in multiple major peer - reviewed articles in the last two years.

It's a fairly consistent amount over the past three years — between 8 and 27 percent of the drought conditions between 2012 and 2014, and between 5 and 18 percent in 2014.

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.