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Water companies might have to invest in new reservoirs, and maybe build desalination plants to deal with droughts.

I had dealt with a lot of natural disasters as governor, including floods, droughts, and tornadoes, but I had never seen anything like this.

Mr. Mwangi says the land used for animals is often not good enough for farming, especially during droughts.

In contrast, Mamba, a 35-year-old farmer in Malawi, has no desire to leave his village despite droughts and periods of acute hunger.

I worked in northern Kenya, trying to help struggling pastoralist communities survive successive droughts.

As well as droughts, floods and other extreme events, the next few years are also likely to be the hottest on record, scientists say.

Monsoons and droughts are not unusual, but forests can hold some of that excess water and release it in the dry season.

An expert said the dating is significant because some researchers have blamed the extinctions on extended droughts that occurred later.

Deforestation has traditionally been a major problem for farmers. Few trees remain to protect soil from floods, droughts and severe storms.

Natural phenomena like droughts, floods, and insects are the bane of every farmer.

This higher rate seems to make wet regions more sodden, and arid ones drier. It brings longer droughts between more intense periods of rain.

These variables affect the amount of water, and for that reason the potential risks of flooding and droughts and water scarcity.

Nwanze said many people around the world are no longer able to cope with recurring droughts and floods, which he blames on climate change.

These waves were all related with serious droughts or wars in Shandong, but they also reflected the variety of Shandong people's localism.

It was also indicated that over the past two years, European agriculture suffered droughts and total output of raw silk was declining.

If I were a little waterdrop, I would go to places which have droughts to help crops grow wonderfully.

She said more drugs droughts , floods. and storms mean greater demands for humanitarian aid.

As the head of a fictional international body the user must save the world from soaring temperatures, increasing floods and deadly droughts.

A hotter climate will dry out the soil more, making record intensity droughts like this year's in Texas more probable.

Reports and studies over the intervening years have spelt out the likely cost of failure: floods, droughts, famines and refugees.

She said more droughts, floods and storms mean greater demands for humanitarian aid.

Years of droughts in this country made for the emigration of its people to the neighboring countries.

The trial scheme was hit by one of the worst droughts in decades, triggering compensation payments of of farmers' investments.

Climate change, which already wreaks havoc through local droughts and heat waves, could well unleash global-scale havoc in a few decades.

Droughts seem to be ever more frequent in northern China, and southern cities such as Guangzhou are also affected.

The absence of land reform and successive droughts in the northern states led to a continuous exodus to the south of the country.

Weather patterns in North Korea, for instance, have been marked since the mid-1990s by a succession of droughts, followed by floods.

Severe droughts could become more common in warm areas and species unable to adapt to the changing conditions would face extinction.

And along the east coast, droughts have reduced the Yangtze River to its lowest water levels in fifty years.

The climate phenomenon results from warming of the tropical Pacific and causes heatwaves, droughts and flooding around the world.

It seems to take floods or droughts for water to get our rare attention.

The flooding has hit a region which, until days ago, was coping with one of the worst droughts in recent times.

Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, snow storms, landslides and droughts killed at least 250, 000 people, globally.

Today lethal droughts, especially in parts of Africa and interior Australia, prompt animals to gather around remaining resources.

It is mainly a result of natural causes, like the sharp weather changes from extreme droughts to heavy rainstorms.

His river Zei is similarly ghostly, like the terrain of a land that is chafing under successive droughts and unfettered development.

Now, Perez says, they will have to work on boosting production - and investing in technologies like irrigation to deal with future droughts.

Scientists believe the predicted rise, which will bring storms, floods and droughts, will be partly due to a reduction in air pollution.

North-central Florida, especially Orange County where Orlando is located, has experienced frequent droughts in the last decade.

So peoples clothes and money, families are fierce enough to hedge against floods, droughts and famine, why?

Similarly, floods and droughts are symptoms of a carbon cycle gone wrong: when soil is compacted or eroded, rain evaporates or runs off.

Since the dam's completion, the region around Poyang Lake has seen nearly annual droughts, turning some areas into dust bowls.

Some of these droughts must have been severe.

Temperate climates used to periodic gentle rainfall will suffer intractable droughts.

The droughts caused Lemurians to have to relocate to other regions that remained pristine over time.

That has been highlighted in recent months as the U. S. , Russia and other countries struggled with poor harvests amid droughts and floods.

Food security is not a new concern for countries that have battled political instability, droughts or wars.

In parts of East Africa, decades of illegal logging and clearing of land contributed to devastating droughts in recent years.

Meteorologists say we are facing twenty years of colder weather and regional droughts.

Within months, India was struck by one of its worst droughts, and 4. 5 million people were made homeless by floods in Cambodia and Thailand.

Extreme ENSO events cause droughts, forest fires and floods across much of the world as well as affecting fishery production.

In the last few years China has experienced increasingly frequent and severe droughts, water shortages and floods.

Such data can provide a critical baseline from which future changes can be spotted, and droughts anticipated before they happen.

Water companies will face serious difficulties in satisfying demand during the worsening summer droughts to come.

Climate change, with its promise of droughts and floods, also adds uncertainty.

Can resist droughts, preserve water and nutrition, improve soil quality, save water and fertilizer increase crop output.

Various human species, including our own Homo sapiens, have endured ice ages and warming periods as well as floods and droughts.

Average rainfall in the region fell abruptly (by a third or more) in the early 1970s and Darfur repeatedly suffered droughts.

They worry about rising seas , declining air quality , shrinking animal habitats, lengthening droughts, and newly brewing diseases .

The U. N. climate panel says that global warming will cause more floods, droughts and rising seas.

And how Australian organic farmers are beating one of the country's worst droughts on record.

During the recent food price crisis, many countries experienced severe droughts that affected food production.

Increased droughts and floods could bring crop failures and starvation in poorer parts of the world.

The main economic activity was pastoral farming whose performance was adversely affected by frequent droughts.

But floods and droughts and plate movements cannot be altered by the Call.

With people having little incentive to conserve, the authorities then have to resort to rationing when droughts occur.

Malnutrition, much of it caused by periodic droughts, is already responsible for an estimated 3. 5 million deaths each year.

There were power droughts; sudden failures of the delta-inducer brought painfully abrupt returns to consciousness.

Entire Crocodile, Ethiopia. During long droughts, some tribes have to resort to hunting crocodiles at night for food.

Some areas which are usually served by hydropower have suffered after severe droughts in the southwest and central regions.

Kenya is particularly worrying because while it has always known droughts, it has seldom been short of food.

Global droughts continue to ravage farmland, intensifying widespread malnutrition and poverty.

As of yet, there has not been much rainfall this year, causing droughts in some areas of our city.

Droughts are occurring all over the planet.

The real question must be, how will the frequency, and duration of these droughts change in the future?

But it is the poor who are most vulnerable to the floods, droughts and cyclones that climate change intensifies.

Disease outbreaks, other disasters and emergencies (armed conflicts, droughts, etc) and the degradation of grazing land are also threats.

Plant breeders and genetic engineers keep working to give crops the strength to resist threats like insects, diseases, droughts or floods.

Yet increasing temperatures and drier weather are likely to create droughts that will reduce the yield and damage many of the plants.

Billions of new people spread unrest worldwide as "massive droughts turn farmland into dust bowls and forests to ashes. "

The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the farmers no longer occur.

These droughts, he realized, corresponded to the time of Angkor's fall.

Western Liaoning borders the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the frail ecology constantly beset by droughts.

But when the scarcity came when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.

Rainfall in Ethiopia, where droughts are already common, could decline by 10 percent over the next 50 years.

and devastating floods, droughts and storms in many places around the world.

Larger areas are being affected by droughts, and flooding is now more serious.

Earlier, the talks opened with calls for action to avoid rising damage from floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

Wenger has seen plenty of forwards go through scoring droughts before and he will do his best to help Gervinho over this particular hurdle.

Part of shifts resulting from global warming are also likely to include more droughts, floods, heat waves and more destructive storms.

Across the planet, humanitarian crises caused by hurricanes, floods, droughts and fires are increasing.

Niger has had seven droughts in the last 40 years, and this year's drought has brought famine to several regions of the country.

China is a typical monsoon climate country, the monsoon climate of instability, resulting in frequent floods and droughts.

Suffering from droughts and floods, NFD is the least developed region in Kenya.

Droughts spread through the sub-tropics, accompanied by heatwaves and intense wildfires.

The IPCC's predictions of increasing droughts spell disaster for half of the developing world's wheat growing areas.

Every year droughts and floods ruin entire counties of crops, particularly in the American Midwest.

It was also the second worst for extreme weather, things like hurricanes, droughts or floods.

Villagers have noticed frequent droughts in recent years that scientists say may be linked to warming.

Frequent floods and droughts and serious water pollution are two major difficult problems of controlling the Huaihe River.

This model is proved to be precise and practical in forecasting the droughts.

The effects of climate change are making droughts more of a norm than an exception.

The costs of extreme weather, including floods, droughts and storms, are already rising, including for rich countries.

Droughts can decrease the availability of potable water and can ruin crops, making food scarce.

He says Africa is sure to be further affected and Africans can expect worsening and more frequent droughts and floods.

Most dust storms are linked to long droughts, exacerbated by human activities like overgrazing and deforestation.

global warming will cause dramatic climate changes including more frequent floods, heat waves, and droughts.

Digging into historical archives, they looked at the frequency of war, price hikes of rice, locust plagues, droughts and floods.

Droughts and new diseases cut wheat production in many parts of the world.

By 2003, record numbers of cyclones, hurricanes, heatwaves, droughts, fires, whirlwinds and floods killed tens of thousands of people.

China frequently battles droughts in its parched north, but meteorologists say the current one is, in some areas, the worst since 1951.

More droughts, floods, and tropical storms mean greater demands for humanitarian assistance.

There exist two dominant patterns of sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) related the fall droughts in South China.

Scientists are now applying the technique to other extreme weather, especially deluges and droughts.

More frequent droughts and crop failures breed hunger and conflict in places where hunger and conflict already thrive.

Droughts, floods and famines would ensue, experts say, and then the mass migration of people, with the conflict that would engender.

Trees are sparse on grasslands due to seasonal floods and droughts, heavy grazing, and fires.

Increased frequency of droughts and floods would affect local production negatively.

How could changing weather affect rain-fed crops in the Horn of Africa, or winter flooding and summer droughts in Uzbekistan?

As a nation, we've had plenty of both floods and droughts this year.

As more parts of the world face prolonged droughts or water shortages, desalination is on the rise.

The droughts spurred Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency in February.

During the longer droughts that follow, the extra biomass then dries up so that if lightning strikes, forests burn more spectacularly.

There have been reports of forest fire in Nepal, and droughts in the typical rain prone areas.

Droughts in eastern Europe and heavy rains in North America this summer sent grain and oilseed prices soaring .

Droughts, viruses, bacteria and parasites are all painfully natural.

The information centre at the Marina Barrage features pictures of floods and droughts.

So why do we invariably connect higher temperatures with droughts and desertification?

"Super" means the rice is designed to better resist droughts, floods, salty water, insects and disease.

Longer droughts may limit the ability of measures to increase soil moisture sufficiently to grow crops.

A series of droughts and new diseases cut wheat production in many parts of the world.

From Africa, Trans-Atlantic winds bring dust resulting from persistent droughts.

If you use an agricultural commodity, you would certainly be affected by price increases following droughts, floods, or freezes .

improved media - fake transfer rumours , goal droughts etc all make you feel the in - game world around you.

East Asia and the southern US are promised more hurricanes and cyclones, Africa and south Asia droughts and disease.

Floods, droughts, pollution and climate change have created even more problems.

The glaciers are melting, storms have increased in ferocity, there are landslides and floods, followed by droughts and deforestation.

Due to previous droughts, people in the region have experienced severe food shortages and high rates of malnutrition.

Training health care workers to quickly rehydrate large numbers of people could help reduce casualties during droughts.

Miguel found that modern-day witch-killings in Tanzania are correlated with droughts and floods.

So are all the quakes , fires, droughts and mud slides in California Karma too?

But Uganda's traditional growing seasons are shifting, so he is worried about droughts or flash floods that could destroy his crop.

We're also suffering through one of the worst droughts in over 50 years.

Natural disasters like droughts affected the nation's soybean production.

Floods will become more frequent in wet regions while dry regions will suffer droughts, says Mr Allan.

The results provided a new ideas and methods for using the data of automatic weather station, observing soil moisture and droughts forecast.

The soil water is influenced by underground water greatly. The areas with lower underground water level are less attacked by droughts.

Amazingly, underground water tables that plummeted after the droughts of the 1980s had now begun recharging.

Followed by the Lou, but Xiao, and Ping (broom dishes), while Xue and Tui (Motherwort), while the spears, habitat successive droughts.

The likelihood of more frequent and prolonged droughts in the future makes water monitoring and conservation a priority for the region.

Meanwhile the plum flood, typhoon-induced floods and droughts often occur in summer and fall.

The fragmented populations that remain will be battered by heatwaves, droughts, storms and other effects of global warming.

Short-term droughts have occurred in the region for all of recorded history, but they may now occur with far greater frequency.

Malaysia, Indonesia and Brazil were hit by droughts leading to huge numbers of forest fires.

Regional droughts could wreak havoc, with bad ones causing global surges in food prices.

As we know, over the past years, floods, droughts, landslides, and dust storms have frequented our planet.

Warmer temperature could also intensify droughts in some regions, destabilize ecosystems, cause the decline or extinction of some species.

However, floods and droughts happen more and more frequently, the situation of a disaster is heavier from a whole point of view.

The east African country is on the equator, and has always experienced severe droughts and scorching temperatures.

Maybe it won't fix droughts on Earth but understanding the laws of nature nonetheless gives us a terrestrial tool kit.

During frequent droughts, however, the cisterns were empty.

In Kenya the Samburu people are losing their livestock to severe, extended droughts.

The frequency and scope of and loss from the droughts have been unprecedented since 1886, he added.

It also can influence clouds and precipitation, leading to droughts; which, in turn, leads to desertification and more dust.

WWF reminds leaders of the added impact of climate change which is already intensifying droughts and floods.

Extreme droughts and extreme floods can't both be due to climate change.

It's impossible to tell if floods, droughts and hurricanes are caused by climate change -- and that's unlikely to change for many decades.

The disastrous droughts of the past few years are just Biblical plagues sent to try us. '

The reports of floods and droughts we've been seeing in the news could be caused by global warming.

2002-3: The rise in sea surafce temperature was lower than other years but Australia suffered some of its worst ever droughts.

Since ancient times, there are floods, droughts and the pier, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal longitudinal throughout.

Heatwaves, storms, floods and droughts kill tens of thousands each year.

Droughts, floods, deadly storms: the news is full of them.

The country that has a long history of devastating floods and droughts arguably faces an even bigger water crisis today.

Droughts can badly affect people and the land.

With the droughts, wildfires scourge more acreage and people resentfully ration.

They say the effects of more storms, floods, droughts and heat waves will be abrupt and profound.

The seasonal droughts in fall in South China occurred mainly in region-wide event.

The crops could fail, droughts could come and go, but God would always be fully present.

Droughts could strike, icecaps melt, rising sea levels might drown us.

since then, the water flow has dropped, partly because of prolonged droughts, but planners have made no adjustments, Mr. Du said.

Due to repeated floods and droughts, the farming in that area has been unstable.

You have hurricanes in Louisiana, avalanches in Colorado, earthquakes in California, droughts and fires, you even have volcanoes.

We have unusual droughts and floods and frosts and strange illnesses.

And what should countries do to prepare for more intense droughts and storms?

Climate change threatens more than megastorms, floods and droughts. The real peril may be disease.

Barring unforeseeable droughts or floods, both the wheat and cereals harvests in 2009 will set records.

The question is what causes such droughts in South-East Asia?

Rising temperatures and more frequent droughts and floods can compromise food security.

This combination of severe rainstorms and droughts, in turn, can lead to more flooding, landslides, soil erosion and other disasters.

Severe droughts could render once fertile land agriculturally barren.

They are stuck in the cycle of poverty and the natural disasters like droughts pull them into the abyss.

We are really concerned it will result in intense droughts in Southern Africa and floods in Eastern Africa.

Henan province is suffering one of China's worst droughts in 50 years.

It brings longer droughts between more intense periods of rain.

Wattle is purpose-built to withstand the country's droughts, winds and bush fires.

It causes more violent swings between floods and droughts.

The droughts are big, covering an area about the size of Argentina.

And prolonged droughts can cause food shortages.

Ongoing droughts have further contributed to the Three Gorges problems.

In Australia, falling wool prices in the 1990s and crippling droughts hit the industry hard.

More frequent droughts in the NamibDesert could threaten the area's unique wildlife.

In these days of hosepipe bans and droughts it is the answer to every gardener's prayer.

Floods and droughts occur also much more often.

Our village is seeing prolonged droughts.

Also we have polluted the land, the river and the air. So we have to face more and more floods and droughts .

Climate change is altering the patterns of freshwater availability in complex ways that can lead to more frequent and severe droughts .

Moldova has recorded nine significant dry periods or droughts since 1990.

That is, if the storms, droughts, rising sea levels and mass extinctions of species are to remain within "manageable" limits.

What is more, it disturbs weather patterns, causing droughts, severe storms, hurricanes.

At the same time, the ability to control water supply should be developed to prevent droughts in the dry season.

Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.

That day I saw on television news reports in China's western region always make droughts, the elder of rain, the crops will perish.

The trend is there is terms of floods, and cyclones, and droughts.

Hydroelectric power, at 22 percent, is a distant second and has been hampered by droughts this year.

Droughts and floods made worse by climate change.

Floods and droughts will become more common.

Droughts and rainstorms may occur in summer.

SERVIR provides real-time information on many disasters, including droughts.

Despite droughts in a large part of north China, grain output reached 492. 5 million tons.

In Australia, it means more droughts in the dry south and more flooding in the tropical north .

They added that previous studies showed that fires in the region increased after large-scale droughts in 1998 and 2005.

We have been strengthening our work, particularly in water-related disasters such as floods and droughts, since I joined [in July 2010].

People now see that these droughts are coming more and more frequently.

Droughts in Arkansas, America's main rice-growing area, have hit the crop: exports will be closer to 3m than 4m tonnes this year.

We stored some food for floods and droughts.

This was caused by increased use of irrigation combined with severe droughts.

Kenyan MP and remote sensing expert, Wilbur Ottichilo, argues the time is ripe for using satellites to spot developing African droughts.

It causes droughts in other places.

The precipitation in China returns to the ocean at too fast a speed, so we frequently suffer from floods and droughts.

In Africa, many people were starved to death during the droughts.

Before harvest , the risk for the development of aflatoxin is greatest during major droughts .

As a result China is seeing floods in the south-east and droughts in the north-west.

They can accompany heavy rains or follow droughts, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions.

Severe winters and summer droughts in 2000, 2001, and 2002 resulted in massive livestock die-off and zero or negative GDP growth.

Extreme floods, droughts and heat waves, such as Europe's 2003 heat wave, are likely to strike with increasing frequency.

Tree cover in southern Niger, for example, has increased tenfold since the devastating droughts of the 1970s.

China's susceptibility to natural catastrophes such as droughts will also spur demand for property coverage, Mr Schiro predicted.

The grain supply has also been disrupted by climate shocks, such as Australia's massive droughts .

But they can still use their influence to encourage a new regional dialogue about the best ways to prevent future droughts.

Gore pointed out record historic droughts in China and Mexico, among other places.

Almost half the serious droughts of the past 60 years have occurred since 1990.

There is also the problem of man-made climate change, which is expected to intensify both droughts and floods.

As for the longer term, the fear is that global warming will make droughts like these more common.

Others think it's probably a short-term blip caused by recent droughts.

Commodity prices are rising, and droughts seem increasingly common in fast-growing developing countries, including China and India.

such as floods, sand storms or droughts.

Last year, some areas in China were hit by natural disasters of a severity seldom seen in history, including typhoons and droughts.

Droughts have increased in frequency, though authorities said this year the affected area is about 100 times as large as last year.

Maybe you know floods, droughts, earthquakes, sandstorms and so on. But have you ever heard of typhoons?