Sentence examples for the devastating drought from inspiring English sources

On the other, even a fairly modest rise in average temperatures translates into a much higher frequency of extreme events — like the devastating drought now gripping America's heartland — that do vast damage.

Last month, we published the photographer Matt Black's portfolio documenting the devastating drought in California; since then, the situation has shown no signs of improving.

We continued to report on the devastating drought in southern African, which was forcing families to eat meals of leaves and watermelon soup.

They want the government to lower export taxes to help them through the devastating drought, which economists estimate will reduce agricultural production by more than 15percentthis yearar.

Add to that the government's lack of any response to the devastating drought of 2006-10, which filled burgeoning slums with 1.5m mostly Sunni peasants, and the scene was set for the 2011 uprising.Such tensions between social classes, far more than those between sects, have sparked many recent Arab revolts; but sectarianism is then used to fan the flames.

We present qualitative and quantitative data from two Maasai communities differentially exposed to the devastating drought of 2009 in Northern Tanzania.

Climate change has condensed the cycles of devastating drought, and agriculture across Africa and the world is feeling the heat.

The boss of Nestlé Waters has said the company wants to increase the amount of water it bottles in California despite a devastating drought across the state that has triggered demonstrations at the corporation's bottling plant.

1929: Crashing markets, failing banks, declining consumption, rising unemployment, increasing tariffs, and devastating drought cripple the world economy.

El Niño has brought with it devastating drought to the country, leaving more than ten million people in need of food aid.

His resolution resolved that "people in the United States should join together in prayer to humbly seek fair weather conditions, including calm skies in the South and lower Midwest where tornadoes have ravaged homes and uprooted families, and for rain where rain is most needed in the South and Southwest, where devastating drought and dangerous wildfires have destroyed homes, businesses, and lives".