Sentence examples for desert expansion from inspiring English sources

That suggests to him that global warming could be the ultimate cause of the observed desert expansion.

Climate-ecosystem models predict that global warming will exacerbate ocean desert expansion, but not this quickly, Polovina notes.

Loss of irrigation, desert expansion, a shift to higher-value crops and scant farm labor in well-off coastal provinces are all pressuring China's grain harvests, says Lester Brown, the early voice of scarcity concerns.

The colonisation of a novel ancestral host, related to the extant Plurinerves, occurred before the inferred onset of climatic cycling and more rapid desert expansion over the Quaternary period.

Since climatic fluctuations appeared to affect arid regions in the Arabian peninsula and south-east Asia (e.g. Thar desert in NE India) in a similar fashion (i.e. glacial periods were associated with desert expansion [ 38- 40]), it is further possible that Plio-Pleistocene climatic fluctuations were responsible for additional east-west (e.g. sub-Saharan Africa-India) vicariance events.

But as Anna Lappé has eloquently argued, the big box chain isn't the answer: "Let's be clear, expanding into so-called food deserts is an expansion strategy for Walmart.

Now scientists have measured a rapid recent expansion of desert-like barrenness in the subtropical oceans –- in places where surface waters have also been steadily warming.

Even if emissions are held to the level of pledges put forward ahead of the Paris deal, southern Europe would experience a "substantial" expansion of deserts.

Desertec's backers say it would also be a positive gesture from the developed world to countries of the Middle East and North Africa, which stand to suffer most from the more frequent droughts and the expansion of deserts blamed on global warming.

Mr. Kerry said the continuing conflict in southern Sudan, which has killed and displaced tens of thousands of people, is a result of drought and expansion of deserts in the north.

The chapter makes sweeping arguments regarding the role played by climatic change in 'increasing aridity and the expansion of deserts' (p. 9); it then attempts to link this to the melting glaciers of the East African Mountains.