Sentence examples for drought contributed from inspiring English sources

Winds, high temperatures and extreme drought contributed to the severity of the current fires.

Last year's drought contributed to the expansion of the virus, health officials said.

The resulting credit drought contributed to a catastrophic decline in land prices, which went on falling for 20 years.

While the severe drought contributed to the decline of poppy cultivation in the central and northern provinces, it also pushed farmers into debt.

As the abstract of an academic paper published this March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences puts it: "There is evidence that the 2007−2010 drought contributed to the conflict in Syria.

"The evidence for the claim that this drought contributed to the outbreak of civil war in Syria is very speculative and not backed up by robust scientific evidence," he wrote in an email.

How did drought contribute to the Dust Bowl phenomenon in North America in the early 1930s?

In contrast, shrub seedlings, and to a lesser extent pine seedlings, maintained higher pre-dawn moisture potentials (ψpd>−2.9) and greater phenological plasticity (fast turnover) in response to drought, contributing to greater growth and survival success.

Rising global temperatures and unrelenting drought contribute to the longer fire seasons.

Hotter temperatures and drought contribute to increased risk of wildfires.

Thick smoke routinely cloaks Southern California hills, highways, and neighborhoods during this region's autumn wildfire season, with drought contributing to worse fires than usual in the past two years.