Sentence examples for bouts of drought from inspiring English sources

This month he went to the Kenyan-Somali border to document the residents of the Dadaab refugee camp, the world's largest and home to 400,000 (and growing) people displaced by the region's recurrent bouts of drought and civil warfare.

We did not collect data on seasonality and source of water and food; over the years Malawi had fluctuating bouts of drought and food scarcity.

Food prices keep rising and the effects of climate change continue to worsen, leading to increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and bouts of severe drought.

An endearing, enduring presence of Americana managed to slip under the radar while experiencing a divorce, bouts of depression and recording droughts as other musicians came and went.

Rising temperatures and long cycles of drought interrupted by shorter, excessive bouts of rainfall increase the occurrence of pests and disease, seriously threatening Arabica coffee.

This is despite the country experiencing increasingly frequent severe water shortages, droughts and bouts of extreme weather.

But over the last two years, severe drought, in between bouts of flooding, has battered the region once again.

And climate change has not been ruled out as a cause of its recent bouts of extreme weather: a ten-year drought, and floods and cyclones early this year.

But the new study offers the strongest evidence yet that two severe droughts, punctuated by bouts of heavy monsoon rain, may have weakened the empire by shrinking water supplies for drinking and agriculture, and damaging Angkor's vast irrigation system, which was central to its economy.

These practices also mitigate the adverse effects of climate change by improving soil's water-holding capacity and regulating soil temperatures so that crops can survive during droughts, floods, and bouts of extreme heat or cold.

First, two years of drought.