Sentence examples for intensifying floods from inspiring English sources

We're using the aquarium of HOLOSCENES to weave the unraveling story of water — the rising seas, melting glaciers, intensifying floods and droughts — into the patterns of the everyday.

With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods, fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life across the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging in increasingly bold protest actions.

To compound the problem, pollution is degrading freshwater supplies while climate change is speeding glacier melts and intensifying floods.

Over the next week, computer model simulations show that snowpack eroding, which will release large quantities of water into river systems, intensifying flooding and ice jams.

The intensifying flood of uncapped donations to outside political groups is transforming not just campaigns but the entire business of politics… Amid the first presidential campaign since the Supreme Court opened the door for "super PACs" and unlimited campaign spending, it is still unclear how voters will respond.

But the multiplicity of challenging trends – climate change (which intensifies floods), the needs of a city expected to double by 2030, a growing rural populace and hundreds of thousands of still unreached farmers – means the crisis is still not being addressed in its full gravity.

The UN says we have 12 years to keep global temperatures under 1.5C, otherwise things will go very badly wrong: intensified floods, droughts and extreme heat with severe effects for the poorest of the world's population.

Dams also threaten to intensify flooding downstream during intense downpours when reservoirs overflow.

That could, among other effects, produce a disruptive mix of intensified flooding and withering droughts in the world's prime agricultural regions.

Both the hurricane's size and slow pace could intensify flooding in the Middle Atlantic states and in the Northeast, where the ground is already saturated in places from heavy rains this summer.

Intensifying river floods caused by global warming may hamper national economies worldwide, with effects propagating through global trade and supply networks, a new study says.