Sentence examples for catastrophic drought from inspiring English sources

But the largest area of catastrophic drought centers on Texas.

In fact, according to Bloomsbury, there will be a catastrophic drought.

Afghanistan is in its 4th year of a catastrophic drought and 22nd year of unremitting war.

Now, in the midst of a catastrophic drought that refuses to go away, California needs true innovation in farming.

For example, one predicts a catastrophic drought that kills off all trees of the American Southeast; the other forecasts increased rainfall and forest expansion in the Southeast.

A 2010 study he co-wrote for the journal Global Change Biology said Bolivia's capital, La Paz, could face catastrophic drought this century.

During catastrophic droughts, herdsmen may lose all of their cattle, sheep, and goats, while 80 percent of the camels will survive, owing to the camel's ability to conserve water and tolerate dehydration.

It is impossible to say what changes another three or four degrees would bring, but the impacts could very plausibly include a collapse in global food production, catastrophic droughts and floods, heatwaves and the beginning of ice-sheet melt that could eventually raise the sea level enough to wipe out many of the world's great cities.

There is also increasing evidence that on the other side of South America, El Niño is responsible for the catastrophic droughts that have periodically afflicted the poverty-ridden interior of Brazil's north-eastern region.It took Peru more than a decade to recover fully from the terrible year of 1983, its recuperation bedevilled by terrorism and inflation.

The catastrophic droughts of the 1980s devastated the Mukugodo Maasai living in this Division (Herren 1987).

A study presented in Vienna today at the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) annual meeting backs up those concerns, providing new evidence that such warming could still lead to catastrophic droughts and sea level rise.