Repeated droughts and floods, combined with land degradation, have lowered crop yields and wiped out people's limited savings.
This flooding, combined with the elevated Cambrian temperatures and changes in Earth's geography, led to increased rates of erosion that altered ocean chemistry.
CO2water alternating gas (WAG) flooding combined with gas channeling control treatments are recognized as effective approaches to enlarge the sweep efficiency of CO2.
Stormwater green infrastructure (SGI), including rain gardens, detention ponds, bioswales, and green roofs, is being implemented in cities across the globe to reduce flooding, combined sewer overflows, and pollutant transport to streams and rivers.
Frequent and strong hurricanes that make landfall on broad, low-lying coastal lands, along with seasonal river flooding, combined to make a risky environmental setting for the future metropolitan area that became New Orleans.
Throughout Collier County, strong winds and coastal flooding combined destroyed 153 homes, inflicted major impact on an additional 409, and 1,049 others suffered minor damage.
Dirty puddles and flooding combined with poor sanitation and hygiene made fertile ground for the spread of illness.
Consequently, the unpredictable nature of the flooding, combined with increased frequency and magnitude, results in crop failure and unprecedented human health impacts.
Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods combined to create a moving body of water equal in dimension to the land mass of the United Kingdom.
One example is systems in which recurrent flooding, combined with other exposures that erode household coping capacity (O'Brien and Leichenko 2000; Webster and Jian 2011), undermines long-term adaptive capacity and increases cumulative risk (Tapsell et al. 2002).
Financing education According to Ms. Wazir Ali, the economic downturn caused by last year's floods – combined with a traditionally underfunded education budget – seem to have significantly stalled Pakistan's progress towards achieving the MDGs.
