As the frequency and severity of drought events are expected to increase globally, drought-induced reductions in plantation productivity are likely to become more important.
"Given the acceleration of environmental and social challenges globally – floods, droughts and workplace tragedies, among them – corporate actions and solutions are not keeping pace with the required level of change.
The overall effect is an intensification of the water cycle that causes more extreme floods and droughts globally.
Work by international scientists has warned that a 4C rise in the planet's temperature would bring severe droughts globally and millions of migrants seeking refuge as food supplies collapse.
Unfortunately, it is less clear what the long-term impact on mortality and health will be from last year's rise in the number of major droughts globally, up to 32 from 15 a decade ago, and which affected more than 50 million people.
Who puts all that data together?" "We started thinking how we could use the drought model globally," said Wood, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Globally, heat waves and extreme drought could increase under climate change.
Globally, floods in Australia and drought in China have helped send food prices everywhere soaring — on fears the world will see a repeat of shortages in 2007 and 2008 that caused food riots in some poor countries, including Egypt.
With increases in drought and heat globally as a consequence of climate change, the survival of species may become dependent on populations that are inherently pre-adapted to drier and hotter climate3,4.
Our inversions also exhibit the strong effects of the 2002/2003 globally wide-spread heat and drought conditions on the emissions of CH3Cl from tropical plants and global salt marshes, on the soil fluxes of CH3Cl and CHCl3, on the biomass burning sources of CH3Cl and CH2Cl2, and on the derived oceanic flux of CHCl3.
