Sentence examples for vast drought from inspiring English sources

President Roosevelt started motion in Washington on a vast drought relief program.

Climate change is worsening; more and more people are convinced that if the world does not move away from fossil fuels, we will experience a lot of destruction of nature, vast droughts and eventually, a huge migration of people from drought-stricken areas toward more fertile lands, wreaking havoc on all aspects of life.

The Denver metro region sits just northwest of the vast swath of drought that stretches into New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (2007) paints a grim picture of superstorms, vast conflagrations, crippling droughts, and millions upon millions of environmental refugees, but the judges felt that its overall message was one of "practical optimism toward the issues facing us".

Cheatgrass replaces the native bunchgrasses and flowers that chicks need with a weed that creates tinder for wildfires, which, fuelled by climate change and drought, consume vast tracts of sage-grouse habitat.

Therefore, green famine is defined as food insecurity conditions that occur under the shadow of favorable natural conditions such as climate (sufficient rainfall, almost absence of drought, and vast fertile agricultural lands), low population pressure, and less resource degradation (Guyu 2015; Ferede and Muluneh 2015).

In the 20th century, for example, all of our great dams and reservoirs were built — "heroic man-over-nature" achievements, in Binney's words, that control floods, store water for droughts, generate vast amounts of hydroelectric power and enable agriculture to flourish in a region where the low annual rainfall otherwise makes it difficult.

Later books on Western water policy, including Marc Reisner's influential "Cadillac Desert," published in 1986, have accused Mulholland of manufacturing the decade of drought, somehow hiding vast supplies of water from a thirsty region in order to drum up support for his aqueduct.

As drought ravages the vast and barren expanse of northern Kenya, decimating livestock and displacing hundreds of pastoralist communities, rather than stay in the settlements, the men have opted to salvage whatever little livestock is left by scouring the arid ranges of northern Kenya and sometimes southern Somalia in search of water and pasture.

Drought can affect vast territorial regions and large population numbers.

Mali is a vast expanse of dunes facing endemic drought and spreading desert.