Sentence examples for reducing rainfall from inspiring English sources

The pollution (80percentt man-made) also cuts sunlight penetration, thus reducing rainfall, affecting agriculture and otherwise altering the climate.

The region has warmed by between 1 and 1.2C since 1900, reducing rainfall in the wet season by an average of 10 per cent.

But researchers say the economic and agricultural gains are in danger of slipping into reverse because the loss of forest is reducing rainfall, raising temperatures and causing other malign feedbacks on the regional climate.

Pollution produced by humans may be seriously weakening the Earth's water cycle — reducing rainfall and threatening fresh water supplies.

Using experimental plots, a team of scientists from the Federal University of Viçosa in Brazil found that clearing for soybeans increases the reflectivity of land, reducing rainfall by as much as four times relative to clearing for pasture land.

"They removed so much forest that it reduced rainfall and reduced the stream flow," she added.

Experts predict that higher worldwide temperatures will reduce rainfall in the Amazon region, which will cause widespread local drought.

Global warming has also reduced rainfall in temperate zones, researchers say, allowing the jellyfish to better approach the beaches.

In the wild, plants recognize when to go dormant by being sensitive to shorter days, lower temperatures or reduced rainfall.

An attempt to reduce rainfall in the United States for example, could conceivably lead to droughts in Asia.

Losing the Amazon rainforest could reduce rainfall across the Americas, with potentially dire consequences for farmers as far away as Texas.