Sentence examples for be devastated by drought from inspiring English sources
Development will be devastated by drought and famine.
However, a study by scientists at Reading University has found that the effect of a massive and continuous injection of sulphates into the air would be to alter the rainfall patterns over vast regions of the world, notably Africa, South America and Asia which could as a result be devastated by drought.
(The Ngarrindjeri are witnessing the collapse of their environment as the Coorong silts up and the entire Murray river system is devastated by drought).
The only amusing famine in movie history is the whiskey famine on the mythical Scottish island of Todday; the wartime ration of whiskey has run out, and the island is devastated by drought.
That may already be happening in Canada, where recent warm winters have unleashed a plague of bark beetles, and in Australia, whose forests have been devastated by drought and forest fires.Clearing forests may enrich those who are doing it, but over the long run it impoverishes the planet as a whole.
In a country where every year hundreds, if not thousands, of people die in natural disasters, crops are devastated by droughts and millions of peasants migrate to cities, the extra disruption and loss of life that global warming might cause have not seemed like pressing concerns.
Lekuton, he charged, was ignoring the area's economic problems — the barter-based pastoral system had been devastated by chronic drought and was no longer viable, he told me — and relying on handouts to win people's votes.
"Large areas of Ethiopia and the Sahel were devastated by successive droughts and overgrazing by animals in the 1960s and 1970s," says Chris Reij, a researcher with the World Resources Institute in Washington.
Since the mid-1990s, North Korea's agricultural sector has often been devastated by both floods and drought.
The vast majority of them -- 85percentnt -- are Kuchis, nomadic tribes and farmers whose livelihoods have been devastated by the five-year drought.
