Sentence examples for drought changing from inspiring English sources

From warmer temperatures to natural disasters such as flooding and drought, changing patterns of climate are having billion-dollar impacts on our food-growing systems.

Drought, changing weather patterns, the expected burden of caring for environmental refugees, the effects of consumerism, and the health decline associated with various forms of pollution are continuing and major problems for human beings themselves (see Shue 2001, Sagoff 2001, Thompson 2001), and raise crucial issues about environmental justice (see Shrader-Frechette 2002).

Drought: Changing Our Western Garden Styles?

Slowly unfolding disasters like droughts, changing rainfall and desertification create different patterns of movement.

Severe drought conditions Changing weather patterns here have led to severe droughts in Chad, crippling local agriculture and causing chronic food shortages, according to local assessments.

In particular different authors used indicators of: land degradation (soil erosion, soil salinization [20]), land use changes (expansion of agricultural or urban areas), bare soil expansion, drought and changing vegetation (perennial plant cover and biomass) [15, 17, 18].

As industrial land-based agriculture becomes increasingly untenable environmentally destructive and at the same time vulnerable to drought and changing weather we are being pushed out to sea.

As industrial land-based agriculture becomes increasingly untenable — environmentally destructive and at the same time vulnerable to drought and changing weather — we are being pushed out to sea.

An indigenous Ch'orti' Maya, Canan abandoned his lands this year after repeated crop failures – which he attributed to drought and changing weather patterns.

California's blistering four-year drought is changing a landscape Hockney once immortalised but he feels no urge to get out and capture the parched browns and ripped-up lawns.

While that may not seem like a large increase, systematic reviews have found that spring is arriving earlier, the sea level is rising and patterns of rainfall and drought are changing.