Sentence examples for drought flood from inspiring English sources

They have endured drought, flood, locust and pestilence.

The islanders aren't the first to flee environmental conditions people have always migrated because of drought, flood or scarcity of resources.

So are storage facilities to preserve harvests and crop insurance to protect farmers from drought, flood or bumper yields that perversely cause prices to collapse.

Thirty-eight color photographs of people, landscapes, and odd things suggest a loose narrative revolving around various climatic conditions: freeze, thaw, drought, flood, ash.

"Whenever these drastic climate events like drought, flood or extreme temperature happen, the world has words of comfort for Africa," says Adesina. "But words of comfort cannot pay the bills and rebuild when problems start".

Trees must compete every second for "water, nutrients, light and space; and to fend off cold, heat, drought, flood, toxicity and the host of parasites and predators of all conceivable kinds," he writes.

There were periods of drought, floods, and long killing winters.

Drought, floods, landslides and rising sea levels are part of daily life here.

Food production was also at risk, the report said, from drought, flooding, and changing rainfall patterns.

Unrelenting violence and warfare as well as drought, flooding, and famine continued to devastate Somalia.

Air travel should be taxed to protect the world's vulnerable from drought, flooding and sea level rise.