Sentence examples for aridity from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere, in recent postings, Eirlys Rhiannon, writes here about the aridity of the arcane legal argument, while Jane Fae examines the case as a whole here.

Noting the island's "dreadful aridity" in the midst of an immense ocean, he blamed the ancestors of the island's inhabitants, who had cut down the trees.Those imprudent ancestors have become symbols for mankind's short-sighted carelessness with his environment.

La Niña events, however, which bring rain to eastern Australia and aridity to the American west coast, are less common.

It will also be offset by an increase in forest dieback elsewhere, caused by rising aridity, drought, pests and fires all symptoms of global warming.

Recent modelling suggests that the mutually reinforcing effects of increasing temperatures and aridity, forest fires and deforestation could bring the rainforest far closer than previously thought to "tipping points" at which it becomes ecologically unviable.

There is no statistically significant relationship between aridity and autocracy outside the conquered world.

These could be affected even if drought is not more widespread everywhere, because heat and aridity do their damage at particular times (for example, during flowering) so crops can be hurt even when a drought does not last long.

Plant growth is limited because of aridity, and the humus content is low.

In desert biomes, on the other hand, the summer months, which may be periods of reduced food availability, intense heat, or extreme aridity, stimulate some desert organisms to become dormant.

The characteristic aridity of the region is manifest in the surrounding deserts and dry regions.

It lay at the centre of a vast arid zone stretching across Afro-Eurasia from the Sahara to the Gobi; it favoured those who could deal with aridity not only states that could control flooding (as in Egypt) or maintain irrigation (as in Mesopotamia) but also pastoralists and oasis dwellers.