Sentence examples for widespread drought from inspiring English sources

There is widespread drought and famine.

Of the 26 El Niño events since 1900, 17 have resulted in widespread drought.

The debit side is appalling: widespread drought, catastrophic rainfall, toppled dynasties, ruined civilizations.

The idea is timely given widespread drought across southern and eastern Africa, yet it is not without controversy.

The Mediterranean as a whole has been subject to widespread drought at various points in the past 20 years.

Back in 1984, journalists reported from Ethiopia about a famine of biblical proportions caused by widespread drought.

What began in 2014 and continued through this year has led to record temperatures and widespread droughts followed by floods.

But even a moderate decrease in the U.S.D.A.'s current projections would still mean a much more bountiful crop than last year, when one of the most widespread droughts in the nation's history led to a harvest of about 10.8 billion bushels.

Livestock and grain markets very much meditate these conversions however with livestock prices often declining with respect to grain prices during severe (and widespread) droughts.

For instance, when monsoons are late or fail to arrive, severe widespread droughts occur, and there have been three droughts since 2000 including the devastating event of 2009.

Since the first attempt to establish an internationally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, under the Kyoto Protocol, those emissions have continued to rise and new records have piled up in terms of hottest years on record, Arctic ice melt, most intense storms to make landfall and widespread droughts.