Sentence examples for lasting drought from inspiring English sources

The report noted that punishing storms, lasting drought and stifling heat threaten the lives and livelihoods of aboriginal groups from the Amazon rainforest to the Arctic Circle.

At just 1.5 degrees of warming, hundreds of millions of people will suffer severe heat waves and lasting drought, while tens of millions more will face flooding from rising seas.

"The weather is now getting more and more extreme and unpredictable with sudden heat spikes, long lasting drought periods and violent and unpredictable rainfalls". The photo from NASA shows the contrast of snow and greenery in California from January 2013 to January 2014.

Isohydric species such as Norway spruce, Scots pine or silver-fir suffer more but recover quicker under short drought events, while anisohydric species such as European beech or sessile oak decrease less in growth but may suffer by longer lasting drought events (McDowell et al. 2008; Hartmann 2011).

We have had diminished rain and snowfall for the last three years, and our last drought was averted only because of a well-timed tropical storm.

A recent Public Policy Institute of California study found that more recharge occurred in the San Joaquin Valley last year than since the start of California's last drought, with the region experiencing its first positive groundwater balance since 2011.

The city's last drought emergency was in 1989.

Sarson first started looking into water efficiency in 2008, when California was experiencing its last drought.

A third said she lost 20 of her 30 goats in the last drought.

That was unusually high because of the drought, but only a climate-change denier believes that was the last drought we're going to see.

India's last drought came in 2009, but the broader economy was shielded because of government stimulus measures intended to offset the global financial meltdown.