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"Our researchers are now working to develop stress-resistant crops that are drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant and saline-resistant, " he said.

A study by Galkayo University, which looked at the effects of drought on livestock, said the average cost of a camel in Somalia is $700.

Normally at this time of year spring planting would be in full swing, but the drought has made farming impossible in parts of the province.

It had brought nothing but drought and famine.

For those of us lucky enough to always have enough food and water, it may be hard to imagine living through a drought.

The ground around the house is completely dry and cracked like the land in the Sahel Desert during the drought.

She said by Skype that much of the land in the drought-affected areas is not very productive even in good times.

But he said the drought could expand to the major grain-growing areas of the north.

They cite events like the heat and drought of the 1930s as evidence that extreme weather is nothing new.

After two years of crippling drought, things were starting to look up in the Middle East.

He thought Lora distinctive and agreed with him donation some of the dividend to the dystrophy dweller nearby as the duration drought.

Unfortunately for the Dane, no one was talking about her snapping out of a much-maligned Grand Slam drought.

You must be a bit more grave, like this river suffering through a season of drought.

He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: it is too difficult to keep animals.

This was partly the result of drought. Also important, however, have been higher prices of oil, since modern farming is so energy-intensive.

The Dust Bowl that affected the prairie regions of the United States was one infamous drought.

In the middle of the hustle and bustle of daily life, they're just two sheep that don't seem to have been affected by the drought at all.

The seeds of rice, tobacco and corn that she planted this spring have failed to germinate because of the drought, she said.

There might be a sliver lining here, some of the states getting heat had been dealing with a terrible drought.

We had a bit of a drought last summer thanks to the heat-wave.

Other orbital vehicles have been used to spot water in drought-prone regions and connect rural hospitals via satellite hookup.

The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said the drought remains severe in Southwest China despite recent moderate rainfall.

On the Internet, many Chinese asked whether the dam was at least partly responsible for the drought.

Plummeting water oxygen levels due to a severe drought have led to thousands of fish dying along the Manaquiri River.

He finished the sandwich, and, taking a flask of whiskey from his pocket, he took a short drought. Then he returned the flask to his pocket.

Had it not been for the heavy rain, there would have been a more serious drought.

Most of sub-Saharan Africa seems to be sunk in a perpetual drought that has fed a numbing series of civil wars.

Despite the fact that the organizing element for the garden is water, the plants by and large are drought-tolerant.

Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in this country of 11, 000 people had dwindled to just a few days' worth.

None of the GMO traits currently on the market offer increase yield, drought tolerance, enhanced nutrition, or any other consumer benefit.

The trend is often ascribed to debt, drought and the ready availability of pesticides that serve as poison.

For Mr Perry is a man of faith, one of two governors who have lately tried to end a drought by petitioning the almighty.

Several scientists, including at least one American, said then that there was no evidence that the dam had caused the drought.

Now, the dam seems to be causing the opposite problem, spurring drought in central and eastern China.

Prediction results showed that this model was valid for prediction of the severe drought occurrence in Zhejiang Province.

Only a few months ago, parts of the southwest suffered from the worst drought in a century.

Years of drought and floods mercilessly show how rediculous our folly is. And now we found the actual value of these "waste lands" .

A drought is upon her waters ; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images , and they are mad upon their idols .

Some economists believe that the heat wave, fires and drought could cause up to $15 billion in damage.

Severe drought in a year, the township pumping work teams to the villages investigating the disaster.

Did I ever tell you the city paid me a dollar with a square foot to rip out my lawn and replace it with rock because we are in a drought?

it is fair to point out that the drought is the sort of thing such change is expected to make more likely, not less.

"It was a drought year, a very bad drought year, " he said.

"We have to redouble our efforts to mitigate rural distress rising from the after effects of drought, " he said.

During the 2005 to 2009 drought, the lake continued to dry up and was polluted by pesticides and fertilizer.

[His goal drought from open play] has been well documented by everyone and I'm sure it preyed on his mind a little bit.

In times of scarcity or drought, sharing everything may mean that many go hungry only eating a little, but at least each has something.

He said nomads and herders are in conflict with farmers because the changing climate has brought drought and a shortage of fertile lands.

However, unless the area experiences a serious drought, energy from water can always be obtained by means of a hydroelectric power plant.

One year summer, the drought did not have the rain, the rill has been also dry, the drinking water was more difficult.

and that of fertilization birch branchlet was bigger in the late, which was able to adapt to a longer period of drought.

He also says more efforts need to be put into raising camels. Camels are often the only animals that produce milk during a drought.

We could prevent drought. We could prevent floods. We could prevent war. We could do so much if families as a whole could make it.

There had been a drought in summer one year and no crops could survive.

A drought on her waters! They will dry up . For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.

After a prolonged drought, heavy rains have now hit parts of the country, killing at least six people.

I do not know when stored in your body so much energy keeping warm drought?

Water companies may seem to have a vested interest in increasing water consumption, but in times of drought this is not the case.

If it is struggling to respond to this crisis, imagine how drought will tear apart other, less prepared parts of the world.

Famine is often the sequel to war or drought.

Owen was sure he would find and capture the Heart of the World and command it to end the drought.

Mr Grant expects to launch drought-tolerant corn in Africa within two or three years of the launch in America.

The garden's design reveals a nice artistic conception of "a timely rain after a prolonged drought" .

Russia has imposed a ban on grain exports until the end of the year, after a severe drought and a spate of wildfires devastated crops.

Into the cedar, you will see a very rough surface of the trunk. Like the drought of the land split.

The drought persisted for several centuries, during which the Tiwanaku went into a slow decline.

Until now, the effective indexs have not been got to supply the reference for the tea resist drought appraisal.

Monsanto expects to be ready in a few years to market its first corn seeds genetically engineered to resist drought.

DURING the Depression of the 1930s, drought turned much of Alberta and Saskatchewan, on Canada's western prairies, into a dust bowl.

Not long before she wrote those lines, a century ago, drought had been one of the factors bringing the states to federation.

Over the weekend, premier Wen Jiabao visited drought-stricken areas, where a state of emergency was declared last week.

The Persians entered the city secretively , during a time of drought, through a dried-up waterway.

So when all this snow melts, the water could help relieve some of those drought issues.

When a drought pushes already vulnerable groups to the point of famine, we mobilize action.

"The drought has done considerable damage to the ecological environment of Honghu Lake, " he said.

The persistent drought has reduced water levels in the middle of the river to a "worrying level, " driving up the danger of ships grounding.

Today, most of the populace is self sustaining, except for those countries where drought has destroyed all chance of living off the land.

Seasonal drought takes place every year in tropical countries where there is only a rainy and a dry season.

Over the long term, China plans to divert water from its two longest rivers to drought-stricken areas.

Even under drought conditions, trees can often provide food and a way to earn money until the next growing season.

But a severe drought plaguing the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has now shrunk the immortal waterfall to a thin stream.

The latest leg of the downturn appears to be broad-based, as the credit drought cramps consumer spending, business investment and exports.

She said long term solutions are needed to save pastoralists, many of whom have lost most or all of their livestock to drought.

Despite the scope of the crisis, Webster says it has not received the same media attention that the drought and famine in East Africa did.

Researchers say villages where farmers planted trees did better than others during a drought and food shortage in two thousand five.

Some experts on agriculture point out that the do not concern about the rise of wheaten due to the drought in Russia and export ban.

Other scientists worry about potential drought and other unforeseen consequences of such a bold and brazen act of geoengineering.

The soil organic matter, nitrogen, available potassium in the drought white gourd forest were all highest.

THE drought of foreign capital is beginning to wreck many economies in central and eastern Europe.

Nielsen-Gammon says much of the Texas wheat crop has already been damaged by the drought and that food prices are likely to rise.

A fierce heat wave in Burma has combined with a drought to create serious water shortages in many parts of the country.

Farmers in drought-stricken areas would get subsidies from the central government, he said.

So, by the court for rain attention, from the emperor to the magistrate, every encounter drought, must set up the altar of sacrifice.

But WMO Data Management Application Division chief Omar Baddour said sub-Saharan Africa did not experience drought this year.

However, with drought and a food shortage, people began consuming the rice as well as the fish and thus, Sushi as we know it today was born.

As well, a state newspaper warned that drought next year could hit crops and stoke already heady inflation.

Period were too few to ensure there are no water shortages, drought throughout the irrigated area not seen a year of drought.

She hurls a torrential downpour today and a drought tomorrow followed by gentle rain the next week.

But drought is not the only weather problem right now for American agriculture.

The county's drought will last for days, said the local water company. It is unknown when water supplies will resume.

Some of the newer plants in the garden died during the drought.

Love is the long drought the earth on a heavy downpour, is not in accordance with the people get the sheds warm comfort for.

California, which produces about half the fruit and vegetables in the United States, is in its third year of drought.

But drought is not the only weather problem right now for America agriculture.

The idea of a major drought or other disaster in Nigeria is almost too frightening for anyone to contemplate.

That trickle flowing, especially when drought limits spray after another, along the steep mountain and the next pouring.

Eg . During the drought, the soil was as dry as a bone.

Had it not been for the reservoir, we'd never have been able to beat the drought.

Except in times of drought, water has never been regarded as a valuable natural resource.

Farmers in Illinois, one of the top corn and soybean producing states in the country, are facing the worst drought conditions in decades.

But the drought of the last few years had left the 13-year-old without the fun of his favourite pool.

The family's problems began a year earlier, when the small herd of goats that sustained them, perished in the worsening drought.

Drought might lead to the reduction of roots in the surface layer and the increase of the ratio of the roots in the deeper layer.

As the Colorado River Basin enters the eleventh year of its drought, the city's reliance on the river may soon become a serious problem.

And a local NGO is attempting to save the drought-affected biodiversity of Australian wetlands by using a network of irrigation channels.

Finally, the land was gripped with a terrible drought. Streams dried up, crops withered, and fields turned to dust.

The long-term goal is to make drought-tolerant maize available royalty-free to small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

The area has always been drought-prone but the region has seen temperatures rise at least 1C in only 30 years.

Villagers line up to collect drinking water from a well at a drought-hit village in Chuxiong.

Xiao believes the drought will last for at least another half month. So fishermen must find other ways to earn money.

Despite the deflation of its housing bubble and a severe drought, the kangaroo economy keeps bouncing along.

Accordingly, study on enhancement of drought, salt and cold resistance using genetic engineering technique is of great significance.

The fungus attacks the roots of the trees, choking off a water supply that has been made scarce by successive years of drought.

The Bank Group will also be alert to ways we can assist these clients if the credit storm and liquidity drought sweeps their way.

The end of the drought, however, was followed by the appearance of many new matrilines that survive to the present day.

Severe drought has been a catalyst for tribal wars that have escalated in the country's north.

Dust storms were the result of drought and land that had been overused.

In 2001, in June there was an extensive drought with rainfall just 10% of normal levels, which served to undermine agricultural crops.

Greatly threatened by drought, there hasn't been a sense of green or liveliness in the village.

One day drought may be a thing of the past at least in coastal cities.

The total central government allocation for drought relief has so far reached 370 million yuan.

Thousands of Tibetans face possible drought as a result of Global Warming and environmental degradation.

The world only to see the great light, but never see especially when drought limits lonely and empty behind the eyes.

A major lack of rain has led to severe drought which has reduced the important waterway to one-sixth of its normal size.

16: On her own in drought-stricken Sool, along Somaliland's disputed eastern border, a nomadic woman watches over her herd.

But drought is not the only weather problem right nowforAmerican agriculture.

This same information can be used to map the areas affected in a more acute way by drought or famine.

Spring rains arrive at last, following the hard years of drought, and our "dead" dreams sprout most unexpectedly.

The grain belts that stretch across the interiors of many midlatitude continents face a regional risk of prolonged drought.

This time, a drought in the Yangtze River is in the dock, with a disease in the pig population charged with aiding and abetting.

But the longer that this drought continues, the bigger the policy issues become.

The heat waves, drought, wildfires, downpours, floods, and ruined crops closely match the predictions of climate scientists.

We are going to have to continue to think about drought and famine.

What politician wants to tamper directly with the climate and risk getting blamed for the next hurricane or drought?

Meanwhile, drought in Australia has meant that large Asian importers have had to ship grain from as far away as America.

And exogenous Spermine could retard drought-sensitive Variety senescence better than drought-resistant one under water stress.

Strong winds, and a drought gripping south-east Australia, made for a lethal combustion.

A summer drought in Russia underscored the threat that weather can pose to production at a time when China's appetite is increasing.

Even if the Great Green Wall survives, the land to the south of it can still turn to desert from drought or overgrazing.

There are those who think this drought will finish in October with the coming of the long rains and everything will go back to normal.

In Europe, milling wheat surpassed an earlier peak reached after Russia banned grain exports in August in response to a devastating drought.

Due to continuous drought, strong winds blowing that day and the fire spread quickly on the hillside near the forest flames.

Drought is one of the world's most expensive and far-reaching disasters, with impacts on food security, disease and power generation.

Sasha Vujacic broke out of his scoring drought with a season-high 15 points on 4-for-5 shooting against the Suns.

Grain prices also have been nudged higher by drought in Russia, planting problems around the world and speculative trading.

Love is sprinkled on the long drought the earth on a showers, make the person is in sheds immediately acquire soul comfort.

The roots was little effect to drought during tillering stage . but it was sensitive between the jointing stage and the flowering stage.

Some of the price rises are the result of temporary problems, such as drought in Australia, and diseases, such as blue-ear in Chinese pigs.

Since the beginning of drought, Switzerland, the Government issued a fire warning several times.

Farmers will also have to grow different crops. Scientists are developing varieties of common crops that are more resistant to drought.

The invention discloses an anti-drought slow-release effect multi-nutrition coated fertilizer and a production method thereof.

Sand and dirt storm disaster is such a weather which acc urged in the drought, simi-drought and simi-wetness areas.

Oberle says the impact of the drought is all too visible.

Farmers in Afghanistan already struggle with the effects of drought and years of conflict.

The drought trend in autumn was the severest, and the probability of light drought was the largest in winter and spring.

For a region such as northeastern Uganda, which has seen its twice-in-a-decade drought cycles arrive once in two years, yield matters a lot.

Australia is struggling to cope with the consequences of a devastating drought. As the world warms up, other countries should pay heed.

The question is whether such a tactic can help bring rain to drought affected areas.

Firstly, China is a country that leaves nothing to chance. They even have cloud seeding rockets to make it rain in times of drought.

Agricultural exports have also rebounded following years of drought.

As one of the areas worst hit by the drought, Central China's Hubei Province has many paddy fields thirsty for water.

Her new study looked at the consequences of this long-term effect in terms of sea level rise and drought.

Drought threaten in the up-reach of Huanghe River still might be very heavy in the future.

The worst of the drought is spread across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Louisiana.

Based on current conditions, the Climate Prediction Center expects the drought to last through at least the end of October.

And the authorities in Sichuan just predicted that there would be severe drought during the summer.

The forecast data was used for drought warning, monitoring and trend prediction.

Meanwhile, the results of prolonged warfare and drought in Somalia are proving to be a breeding ground for measles.

Hua Jiaoshu drought-resistant, Low, adaptable, can be used for afforestation and beautification.

When Star World decided to air it, it felt like the first rain on a drought stricken desert. I was so happy and relieved.

Experts say there was plenty of warning that the Horn of Africa was likely to experience severe drought.

Smooth the surface of delicate skin, especially when drought limits luster shallow.

The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century.

The priority, in any case, is managing the impacts of the current drought and being better prepared for the next one.

Severe drought is affecting parts of middle and eastern Yunnan, due to shortage of rainfall, xinhuanet. com reported.

During the war, in the mid-1980s, there was also a drought, and farmers were getting desperate.

Although B sprinkled a drought, violated the qualitative principle, but would be beneficial to both sides communication harmless.

Expect to pay more for pecan pie this Thanksgiving thanks to drought in parts of the South and big demand from China.

Some countries must rent costly diesel generators to boost hydropower in years of drought.

The high and stable yield of cotton quality and can increase disease-resistant and drought-resistant ability of cotton plant as well.

Now, it seems, the region faces drought every two or three years.

The consensus across the City and Wall Street suggests, too, that the drought of initial public offerings could end soon.

The drought has hit at least 12 provinces, including the wheat-producing areas in Henan, Anhui and Shandong provinces.

There were some correlations between the changes of the bands and the extent of drought stress, but their orderliness was not remarkable.

The aid agency says tens of thousands of drought victims are fleeing to parts of Kenya and Ethiopia where they hope to find food.

Chiang said the drought will put pressure on China's domestic grain and other food prices.

But that's exactly what over a month of severe drought in Shangdong province has caused along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

For the past few months investors have been anxiously watching the skies, fretting over the impact of the worst drought for decades.

The drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is said to be the worst in decades, with more than 12 million people facing hunger and starvation.

Each June and July are the province's flood prevention and drought control critical period, other work is in obeying the center.

United States cotton producing areas due to drought occurs in Texas, cotton planting progress substantially behind in previous years.

In a country as large as China, there is always a drought, disease or flood somewhere that can be blamed for rising prices.

Passive microwave has a low resolution and revisit period but it has more potential for large scale agricultural drought monitoring.

What he saw -- and what he photographed -- was a country ravaged by decades of war, drought, and terrorism.

"The drought here is heavy and we used to have many malnourished children, " said Mohed Garune, one of the community elders.

By fall, however, drought conditions began to expand into the South.

Warnings of flood, famine, drought and mass extinction merge into an overwhelming sense of futility.

But the company has been inundated with orders as the drought refuses to come to an end.

The new protest was sparked by the president's veto of part of a drought-aid law.

Drought risk also increases with warming: even where rainfall does not decline, increased evaporation dries out the soils.

Many of the asylum seekers also said they were forced to leave because of crop losses due to drought .

Drought wiped out much of Somalia's crops, and herds of camels and goats perished, or were forced out of low-rain regions.

Southern Company, an electricity utility based in Atlanta, temporarily shut down some of its power plants last summer because of a drought.

The results showed that drought was the most serious disaster. The other three main disasters were hail, rainstorm and flood, frost.

The latest report from the Famine Early Warning Systems, known as FEWS-NET, shows areas of northern Kenya locked in a severe drought.

High prices, a shortage of homes and a mortgage drought are being blamed for driving a change in expectations.

AS THE planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought will uproot millions of people, and with dire wider consequences.

Dwindling water supplies and drought comes just as China's wealth is increasing demand for more water.

As a result of the drought in Eastern Europe and the floods in Australia, global harvests have decreased, leading to panic on the markets.

It has a very strong resistant capability, especially to drought, salt, freezing, plant diseases and insect pests.

Australia's recent extraordinary extreme drought should be an eye-opener for the rest of us.

GRASSLAND AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM ARE THE TACHE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURAL EXPLOITATION IN THE DROUGHT OF MIDDLE NINGXIA.

Sharply falling water level by the lasting drought in the middle parts of Yangtze River enhances the risk of ships grounding.

The maps show a widely recognized indicator known as the Palmer Drought Severity Index.

A drought earlier this year quickly turned into a full-blown famine that has hit 4 million people and already killed tens of thousands.

As a result, this drought is likely to have the cultural impact of the great 1930s drought, which hammered an already weakened nation.

Artificial means were employed to create rain in at least 7 provinces during the past weekend to alleviate the rare drought.

Indeed, the tyranny of distance, so long bracketed with drought as Australia's enduring curse, has been turned on its head.

Famine is not the only backwash of drought in Africa.

In June, it was heat, as the Northeast began roasting through weeks of the worst drought since the 1960s; 256 people died.

The drought, which has lasted for five months, has brought water levels in the middle part of the Yangtze to a near-record low.

All my friends drought I was so lucky when Nelson and I got married right after I got out of high school.

Water remote sensing technology is widely used in dynamic monitoring of flood, drought, water resources, water environment, etc.

To improve the response to drought, the United States, Canada and Mexico established the North American Drought Monitor program.

A further rise in unemployment may come from smaller companies squeezed between tough labour laws and a credit drought.

I've come to consult with you about the measures we shall take to reduce the loss caused by the drought.

But these words do not: flood, drought, hurricane, rising sea levels, bursting levees.

Beetles at 'Epidemic' Levels, Years of Drought Put Northwest Forests at Risk.

Should Malawi suffer a drought, then it would be protected against a rise in the price of imported maize.

"The drought and declining water tables are going to have an increasing impact on oil and gas production in Texas, " Glassman said.

CHINA is in the grip of a severe drought. In contrast, its banking system is awash with liquidity.

However, the drought has reduced water levels significantly, and as you can see, all the boats are stranded.

If the Australian drought continues, the thousands who depend on irrigation water for a living will be in deep trouble.

Finding ways to get around the drought, Kieron steers away from permanent pasture.

The results showed that the growth properties and physiological characteristics were influenced significantly under drought stress.

The drought was the worst in the region in 50 years, and water levels in the Yangtze and bodies of water linked to it fell drastically.

The briefing shows that drought and ecological catastrophe swept over the whole locality, and followed by a slack economic.

Drought has been a primary fact that restricts agricultural development of dry plateau in WeiBei.

The invention discloses a rape drought-resistance seed-soaking agent and a preparation method thereof.

The chestnuts have also been suffering from drought and a serious and increasing disease, bleeding canker.