Sentence examples for vulnerable to drought from inspiring English sources

AMAZON At higher temperatures, the Amazon rainforest is vulnerable to drought and uncontrolled spread of fires.

Although hydro provides cheap baseload power, over-dependence on the resource can make a country more vulnerable to drought conditions.

And the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East is one of the regions most vulnerable to drought as temperatures rise.

"Our goal is to map completely for all sequoia groves in the Sierra Nevada where they're most vulnerable to drought".

Hydroelectric facilities — which account for about 16 percent of global electricity production — are also vulnerable to drought, of course.

Geothermal could be an alternative to hydroelectric dams, which provide most of the region's power but are vulnerable to drought.

The practical and critical outcome of this is that trees and forests, globally, appear to all be relatively vulnerable to drought-induced mortality".

East African countries such as Somalia and Sudan are also vulnerable to drought-fuelled conflict, according to Professor Seager, along with parts of Central America – especially Mexico, which is afflicted by crime and is politically unstable, short of water and reliant on agriculture.

These citizens will also be vulnerable to droughts, floods and desertification caused by climate change.

Removing it, they say, will increase water rates and make the Bay Area's water supply vulnerable to droughts.

But these areas are also vulnerable to droughts caused by climate change, economic instability and increasing competition over shrinking natural resources, such as pasture land and surface water.