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The eastward movement of the low-pressure convection area results in drought conditions in Australia, Indonesia, Africa, and India.
Forget the 43-year drought and three straight flameouts in the NFC championship game.
While rainfall registers about 50 inches per year, growers often have to irrigate their crops during extended drought periods.
When the drought hit and Sally Field had no crops and no income, the bank had to foreclose on her farm.
It is drought tolerant, even more so than cowpeas, but benefits from adequate rainfall on well-drained soils.
The immediate cause of the famine is the drought in the southern part of the island and the cyclone that hit the east this year.
Climate extremes like flood, fire, cyclones and drought cause major impacts that can be minimised more effectively with climate forecasting.
So much rain has fallen that precipitation deficits from last year's drought have been eliminated.
The characteristic periods of drought and low beef prices also rule out generalisation about exploitation.
The increasing occurrences of drought and an overall decrease in absolute rainfall promoted drier climates.
Because of the prolonged dry spell, drought had hit various parts of the region.
There are plenty of potatoes in the ground and it looks like a prolonged drought or difficult harvest will be required to lift prices.
Now, the inland city's water supplies are all but depleted as Australia's crippling drought parches farm and playing field alike.
Naturally, the drought also affected the nearby town of Kanyaka where D. Brown was the postmaster and Thomas Moyle the publican at the hotel.
Desiree is a maincrop potato variety, with high and early yields. It has a high resistance to drought and good resistance to potato virus.
Plant species growing in the semi-arid regions of the world need to be adapted to an environment in which drought strongly affects plant growth.
In a dry situation, durum is usually the best crop to grow because it is the most drought tolerant.
Shortages have become endemic to many regions, as record drought and population sprawl sap rivers and aquifers.
Her struggle with the drought is gut-wrenching and the ending heartbreaking.
The odds against the drought continuing across eastern Australia have eased a little, but the best bet you can still get is even money.
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There is currently some 30,000 farmers receiving exceptional circumstances drought relief.
If we happen to be in a drought condition, all fire precautions are doubly necessary.
Temperatures were near 100, and drought had oven-baked the forest's Douglas firs, ponderosa pines, and cedars.
The drought began to break in mid-December when heavy general rain fell in Victoria, with more after Christmas.
One can only hope that, after the relative goal drought of two years ago in Mali, they and the other 15 nations put on a more exciting spectacle.
The same happened to him two years ago, when after a goal drought he was about to be farmed out to the lower leagues.
I am going through a bit of a goal drought at the moment and it would be nice to get a goal or even a few before the end of the season.
Sam must be seriously concerned at a goal drought that threatens to drag us into a relegation struggle.
Davies' victory in Sydney ended a 13-month title drought for the Coventry-born player.
Ward broke a 13-game scoring drought at Wimbledon and believes that could be the springboard for a goal burst of his own.
Manchester United's championship drought is over and the fences with the manager have been mended.
And the tourism drought hits the Midwest less hard than other parts of the country.
So England's men's championship drought continues beyond its 68th year or whatever!
It zigzagged in 1935 from drought to sloshy spring to frying-pan summer to completely catawampus.
The first important abiotic factor affecting potato productivity is drought and it has a large influence on productivity.
Several weed species, including kochia, Russian thistle, and field sandbur are extremely drought tolerant.
By contrast, drought hastens ripening and seed maturation for tomato and reduces fruit abscission for lychee trees.
Unfortunately, the 1980-1984 quadrennium marked a drought in Hungarian gymnastics.
A recent student debate centered on whether animals in the wild should be watered during a severe drought.
Weeks of hot weather had produced a good harvest, but many watermills were becalmed by drought, so flour remained scarce.
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There is need to work out well grounded, multi-faceted and sustainable long-term measures on how to handle and manage drought situations.
The drought loosened its grip in the southeastern States in November, and more emphatically so in January 1941, when heavy rains fell.
Fifteen districts, all of them lying in western areas of the state have been declared drought hit.
He says Florida cattle ranchers were aided by recent severe winters and drought.
Farmers in the Western Cape have already been given millions of rands in drought relief.
Annual precipitation ranges from 8-14 inches, and in the recent drought that has become 5-10 inches.
For three years, their homeland, already ravaged by a decade-long civil war, has suffered a catastrophic drought.
Last year, on the back of two years of drought, Margaret's orchard was ravaged by severe frosts.
Three crops a year are harvested to provide enough rice for the population, and the government keeps surpluses stored for times of drought.
The interlinking of rivers in the country can also solve the multiple problem of drought and unavailability of water at one stroke.
As the fairways are rapidly improving from the drought, no doubt the green keepers are managing to get the sprinklers working overtime.
Xiamen is fully ready to provide drinking water to Jinmen, Taiwan Province, which is now suffering drought.
In Susan's courtyard, the little well is a widow's cruse, which never dries, even in the severe season of drought.
For extremes of temperature and conditions the summer drought of 1976 and the winter freeze of 1978 will go down as two of the worst on record.
The vegetation is restricted mostly to the bed of the khor and is reduced during the drought.
Reservoirs could be designed to hold large amounts of water, and make it available during times of severe drought.
He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
Carlo Morelli is a contributor to OnlineTips.org, where you can read tips about landscaping during times of drought and xeriscape landscaping.
Elijah told the Israelites that Yahweh would bring drought to the land if they continued worshipping Baal.
A severe drought killed the first four hundred yams that he had planted from his own stores of a small crop the previous year.
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The terrain is mostly desert, and home to drought resistant plants such as myrtle, boxwood, and wild olive.
The drought has not helped matters as animals have abandoned their traditional grazing lands in search of greener pastures.
Torrential rains yesterday collapsed roads and triggered landslides in central Taiwan but failed to relieve the drought in the north.
Eggs are drought resistant and lay on the ground, where the larvae scavenge on dead insects.
These policies have left us badly exposed and at the mercy of natural phenomena like drought.
The period also induced a severe, decades-long drought that may have brought on the demise of the Anasazi culture of North America.
Not only do the running expenses continue, but they usually increase in times of drought.
A water firm has been granted permission to pump water from the Lake District into a reservoir in case of drought.
During drought years, the amount of residue is even less, which exposes the soil to greater evaporation and erosion.
For a while, all I thought about as a Manchester United supporter was when we'd end the drought and win the league.
Anhydrobiosis is a state of suspended animation certain invertebrate animals enter in response to severe drought.
The severe summer drought got to the lemon verbena long before my silver maples started shedding leaves in stress.
The drought belt of Africa has had almost two decades of exceptionally dry weather.
As water bodies dry up, and the supply lines remain dry as a bone, the city residents are in for a long and hot spell of drought.
In severe drought years some reaches of the riverbed dried up completely, resulting in lasting habitat damage.
For all you leering lechers, a severe drought and eventual brown-outs, load-shedding and power failures could prove a bonanza.
Generally only a very hot fire, one fueled by drought and a heavy buildup of fallen leaves and pine needles, will kill a longleaf pine.
The capital encountered severe drought this year due to a sharp decrease in rainfall.
At first, I thought it was just our area but I've been asking around and apparently, almost all of the areas are suffering this drought.
And in a place where the rivers are running dry, and the harvest has been ruined by drought, the specter of starvation is looming ever larger.
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At the peak of the La Nina some drought relief can occur when warm moist tropical lows are brought onto the country.
Because, in the preceding years, the ryots underwent a severe prolonged spell of drought.
Plants grown in a field lysimeter on two soil types were subjected to progressive drought during vegetative growth.
Record prices in the saleyards are being blamed on a lack of lambs after the drought.
In Minquin province they live with violent sandstorms, drought and a desert encroaching at five to ten meters a year.
The mallee is small type of eucalyptus which is extremely drought resistant.
Such is the official apathy that drought and food scarcities have found little space for intellectual discussions and strategic planning.
It should not be relegated to a matter that was only given close attention in times of drought and water scarcity.
Maybe it's just the first signs of drought, but it's all very unnatural, I tell you.
Though it appears to be a natural calamity, to a great extent drought is a man-made calamity.
Evergreen sclerophylls and drought semi-deciduous shrubs that shed their leaves during dry periods are the dominant plants in this region.
Growth stops, and, as a result, the plant becomes more susceptible to such environmental pressures as drought and high temperature.
Clues from bones tell a remarkable story of an Ice Age drought, where mastodons undertook huge migrations just to survive the seasons.
Semi-arid areas are especially at risk because of seasonal or periodic drought.
The Lake Tahoe basin lost 30 percent of its pines to bark beetle infestation during the 1986-1994 drought, according to Blomquist.
After several years of drought, which may be related to global warming, pine trees have become vulnerable to the bark beetle.
Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox.
The worst drought across the Midwest in 17 years is now threatening commercial shipping.
It left a small wet spot, and the fabric soaked up the salty moisture like thirsty crops after a drought taking in a welcome rain.
Naval pilots have been sent to seed the clouds in an effort to bring rain to ease the drought in parched provinces of northeast Thailand.
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During this drought simulation, the ME-transformed plants depleted soil moisture more slowly than did the wild type or the null segregates.
Different pressures, such as overgrazing or drought, can push land over the threshold.
This fast-growing deciduous vine thrives in full sun and tolerates cold and drought.
Then the drought broke, and for a few years the underworld throbbed with life.
Residents were storing water supplies in bathtubs and buckets ahead of the expected three-day drought.
Shallow-rooted, self-seeding native plants that can survive both drought and drenching will need little if any watering.
The combination of a naturally arid environment, years of drought and poor planning is proving to be dry tinder in a combustible atmosphere.
On our topo maps we had etched an ambitious, 225-mile loop that took us far north of the ongoing drought in central and southern Mongolia.
The shallow depths where fertilizer is placed are dry under drought situations, which limits nutrient uptake.
Many plant species accumulating betaine inhabit saline and arid areas and accumulate the compound in response to drought and salinity.
A comparable list of minimum requirements could be drawn up for drought and other environmental stresses.
The idea of a wild chaotic continent wracked by poverty, drought and tribal warfare is challenged by images as well as words.
Todd Fedoruk ended a 49-game goal drought, and Anaheim's Chris Kunitz scored the first short-handed goal of his career.
As the effects of the drought were biting deeper, production at Blinman was also slowed down.
It is moderately lime resistant and quite drought resistant, and so is widely used in Mediterranean climates.
In the Kalahari, the fresh tsamma fruits are used as a stock feed in times of drought.
They live high and throw their money around rather than investing profits to build up their capacity to survive the next drought.
India's dramatic seasons of drought and monsoon can destroy everything a person owns.
But after three years of drought and little prospect that this year's rains will arrive in mid-April, the scene in Gode and other zones is bleak.
My silver beet is loving the drought, with not a spot of rust anywhere to be seen.
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Records for heavy rain, flooding, hurricanes and typhoons as well as drought and dust storms are increasingly being broken.
In my years, I have witnessed, first hand, tornadoes, blizzards, nor'easters, drought, ice storms, lighting, flood and rain.
Although suffering from hunger because of a prolonged drought and government cutbacks in their rations, the Sioux were not taking up arms.
When drought hit the prairies and parkland in the mid-1980s, scaup numbers fell below their goal of just over 6 million.
In turn, these companies have taken advantage of dire drought conditions in parts of Brazil to entice workers into slavery.
Kirkland said several explanations could explain the mass mortality at the springs, including drought, toxic gases, or botulinum.
Making a large plant, the boysenberry is hardy and extremely resistant to drought.
It is bursting back to life earlier too now, due to an ongoing drought that has reduced snowfall in the area.
And snowmaking creates or exacerbates drought conditions in mountain streams.
Until the drought of the 1960s and 1970s which accentuated brackishness in the river, it was most suitable for rice cultivation all year round.
Limpopo farmers, who have been particularly hard hit by the drought, are extremely upset about the decision.
This drought broke emphatically in February 1973, with exceptional rainfall over South Australia and the eastern states.
If the drought has now broken, why are you predicting this food crisis will last until April?
And in the meantime the drought has broken and the farmers are clamouring for seed so they can get a crop.
The drought has broken again, just when everyone wondered if it ever would.
Another concern is the continuation of drought conditions across much of the south-east of the country.
The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown.
If they appear stressed and browned by drought, most will rejuvenate after a good cut back and regular watering.
With brutally unforgiving winters, and summers of drought and fist-sized hailstones, these states practically beg travelers to keep on moving.
As natives to the Great Plains of the U.S., buffalo berries are berry winter hardy and drought tolerant.
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Camels, elephants and regular drought animals like the bullocks also are brought on to roads to draw the attention of voters.
Ozone and drought are well-known stress factors that influence tree vitality in Europe and North America.
However, some native species may be less drought tolerant than non-native species.
One species burrows into the sand and can remain dormant for years in times of drought.
Irrigation has lessened the damage caused by hot nor'westers and times of drought.
Orders are notably high from the Northeast, where the drought is particularly severe.
Initially we thought that during famine or drought, the ancient Nubians and Egyptians might have been forced to eat moldy grain.
It means 500 percent more floods, mudslides, hailstorms, drought, ice storms and wildfires.
This year the crop had been affected first by a spell of drought between February and April and subsequently by hailstorms in some pockets.
Stored rainwater also is a good standby in times of emergencies such as power outages or during periods of extreme drought when wells dry up.
In gradually substituting steam for stream power in their manufactures, they lessened the impact of drought or flood.
The rather long drought in the district has taken a heavy toll on the cash crops like maize, tomato, capsicum, ginger and paddy.
They are also completely winter hardy and have an excellent ability to survive floods and drought.
Bulbs have evolved to survive in harsh climates, to withstand winter cold, or summer drought, or both.
After a three-year drought, many investors have seen their stocks or mutual funds increase in value.
Hurricanes, floods, drought, freezing conditions and heatwaves all take their toll annually in varying numbers.
A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
Then drought and famine struck the community, bringing with it related social and nutritional problems.
As a result of cavitation and embolism formation, stem hydraulic conductivity is reduced, which may be critical for a plant under drought stress.
They've all been abandoned by their mothers because of the drought, or have been left orphaned.
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Badly overgrazed pasture-land, soil depletion, and drought are persistent problems.
If it rains particularly hard in the Sumatran rain forest, the already arid region of East Africa is onset with drought.
Honey ants store nectar in their bodies to sustain their colony during times of drought.
The distinctive, compound palmate leaves typically drop with heat or drought, but defoliation may be less with more shade and water.
The sprawling capital has been hit by drought for months, but the speed of the fire's spread took residents by surprise.
The rare drought was the result of global warming as well as abnormal atmospheric circumfluence.
It is well known, that, after some days drought, on the falling of rain that humects the earth, there arises a grateful smell.
If there is a drought and power is required, hydel power will not suffice because of inadequate flows of water.
So I take it whatever land is available for pastoral uses given the recent drought is actually being covered by this weed?
Maize and pearl millet are compared, of which the latter is more drought tolerant.
A similar response to drought or salt stress was observed for McCDPK1 in common ice plant.
The fungi also coat tree roots, protecting against microbial pathogens and drought.
Several southern African countries face famine because crops have failed as a result of drought or flooding or both.
A severe drought has left much of the country parched and barren, with some crops declared a complete failure.
An estimated 10 million are facing starvation throughout the southern region of Africa due to famine and drought.
In Southern Africa, flood years have been followed by drought years causing widespread famine and death in the region.
Twenty years after images of starving Ethiopian children shocked the world, famine and drought continue to stalk this African nation.
Faced with severe drought, lack of food security is creating conditions of famine.
For example, warring factions often induce drought and famine through the use of scorched-earth tactics.
In a region noted for drought, famine, climatic extreme and racked by a 30-year civil war, the findings were almost unbelievable.
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The Chipini region in Africa is also been hit by drought and famine and the local committee has appealed for support.
As a result of the war, in addition to drought and famine, more than 750,000 left their country as refugees.
Physical stress, such as soil infertility and drought, prevents plants from reaching any size but the minimum required for reproduction.
The charity initially piggybacked food distribution by Oxfam to supply vaccines after the 1994 drought.
And Philip's paintings often remember the region's past, originally an inland sea, now feeling the effects of prolonged drought.
We need them now and, from the reports of drought in the western fiefs, we shall need them for some time to come.
When a plague of locusts and a bad drought struck the country last year, devastating the crops, the prospect of a famine in 2005 loomed large.
Southeastern soils have been intensively cropped and are prone to drought and erosion.
He said that in view of the prevailing drought conditions, the state Agriculture Department had prepared a contingency crop scheme.
It is hoped the order will reduce the chance of more strict drought measures being introduced next year.
From 1987 to 1991, drought turned much of the plain into a moonscape.
If drought persists some limited irrigation may be permitted.
Rice prices are soaring because drought has blighted the Basmati crop.
A terrible drought last year sparked chronic food shortages this year.
Ms Musonda said her organisation had embarked on a programme to encourage farmers plant cassava, millet, and sweet potatoes as these were drought resistant crops.
Longley then set about the task of designing a hovercraft for Lake Chad, but by the time he had spent three years building it, a drought had dried up most of the lake.
We had emerged from a very difficult drought and from a world recession in '83, thanks to the breaking of the drought here and the revival of fortune in the rural industries.
After the 1903 drought, cattle diseases such as pleuropneumonia and rinderpest followed behind a disguised increase in tax rates for rural Africans.
But periods of high heat and drought send such common urban-dwelling species as crows, blue jays and robins out of the city in search of fresh water.
In former times the custom was to uncover the face of the rich and cover the face of the poor because the faces of the poor had turned livid during lives of drought.
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Much of the region was reeling under the worst drought in living memory.
Although many were able to withstand natural disasters such a floods and drought, the boll weevil and the variable price of cotton, there were also those that did not.
It seems surprising that an island where so much moisture is continually exhaled from the circumfluent ocean should be parched with excessive drought.
This last remaining wild population of bridled nailtail wallabies fell to fewer than 500 individuals in the mid-1990s during a protracted drought.
The Environment Agency has conducted similar studies each summer since the 1995 drought that resulted in many reservoirs and rivers across Yorkshire running dry.
Surely, in a drought year, it makes economic sense for him to sell water which is at a great premium, than toil growing paddy that would fetch him unremunerative prices!
And beware of tapping into groundwater for agriculture too, as that can have the same effect as a drought.
I live in an area that was scorched by drought for several years.
The report is one of the few pieces of good news for farmers after years of drought and a financial crisis prompted by a case of mad cow disease earlier this year.
Last year panhandle ranchers Phillip and Doris Smith suffered through the worst one-year drought in Texas history.
Although the volume depicts a spiritual drought in the postlapsarian world that hinders its individuation, glimmers of the active imagination provide a vehicle for redemption.
Withering drought, the sawmill closing, families leaving the district in droves and the nationwide rural downturn had brought Ranfurly to its knees.
The rainy season was so heavy following the drought that it destroyed the second crop and the harvest was so poor that one man in the village hung himself.
As the fat, large drops fell from the heavens and hit the parched earth, the land that had once been in a drought rejoiced, and the angels were glad.
And it has also come at a time when the country is fighting to develop hybrid varieties that are tolerant to drought and other stressful weather conditions.
After a winter of meager snowfalls, another drought is likely.
The drought killed off owls, snakes, coyotes and foxes, natural predators of the native deer mouse, which then enjoyed a 10-fold population increase.
They had to work out how they'd control weeds and insects, how they'd water the crop in a drought, and to start with, how they'd fertilise the soil.
He found that drought significantly reduced levels of root starch in 7-year-old sugar maple seedlings, and defoliated, unwatered seedlings had even less.
The water quality coming down the river leaves a lot to be desired and he had to destock completely through the drought and is gradually restocking.
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Hampshire could be in the grip of a drought in just six weeks' time.
After a year-long drought of initial public offerings in the sector, two biotech companies went public in the past three weeks, and 14 more would like to join them.
Large numbers of pinon pines are dying in the pinon-juniper forests of the Southwest due to a bark beetle outbreak triggered by several years of severe drought.
Mozambique's drought is patchy, with some areas enjoying good rainfall or able to use old Portuguese colonial-era irrigation schemes to boost production.
We know that climate change reduces fish stocks, increases rainfall in coastal areas and drought in the interior regions, and increases the risk of forest fires.
When the precipitation rate increases in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, floods inundate southern China and Bangladesh and drought hits some of the remotest Indian villages.
He also said the international climatology community had yet to recommend cloud seeding or other weather modification methods to resolve the ongoing drought.
Weed populations explode the year after a drought due to turf thinning.
Can we survive this sporting drought for another couple of weeks until the double whammy of the new football season and the Olympics hit with a vengeance?
Soon afterward, the drought broke and the area teemed once more with life.
I'm sad to see the last of the poppies, and I feel a deal of sympathy with the plants that are suffering under the drought, but I'm also enjoying the sun.
The Minister warns the drought meeting will not provide instant solutions.
Ferrari endured a 16-year drought before regaining their title touch.
Continuous cropping on these soils has meant declining organic matter and tilth, and increased susceptibility to drought and other adverse conditions such as erosion.
He finds himself giving advice and telling homiletic stories, then fasting to bring an end to the drought which endangers the livelihood of the villagers.
Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint, ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine.
The surviving hirola are threatened by drought, poaching and habitat loss.
And, a three-year drought has turned forests and swamps to tinderboxes.
Before the drought, the Smiths owned about 150 cows and their calves and as many as 100 yearlings.
A recent study published in New Scientist magazine draws a direct link between sulfurous fumes from US smokestacks and 30 years of drought in Africa.
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This year Las Vegas entered what it calls drought alert, meaning tight restrictions on water use for residents and businesses and heavy fines for water wasters.
Then of course came the drought and everything has been topsy-turvy, with some events threatened by the lack of rain and grass coverage on the playing fields.
Despite constant pressure from New York City media and fans longing for an NBA championship after a 30-year drought, Thomas waxes positive on his team and his position.
Side roads in-between advertise numerous opportunities for whitewater rafting and jetboat rides, though maybe not so exciting in the current drought.
It's a harsh countryside by anyone's standards, and for some eight million people estimated to be at risk from drought and famine in the region, it is now a race against time.
If we clone deer at all, rather than their racks, we should select animals for duplication based on their ability to get through a rough winter or survive a drought.
The summer of 2012, the hottest ever recorded in the United States, coincided with the worst drought in fifty years.
Broken twigs, trails to nowhere, and mini-debris landslides, despite the drought, were all telltale signs of heavy use.
After decades of drought, it seems it is raining democracy in this region.
Much of their folklore dwells on drought, fire, famine, and rainmaking.
African rice is tough enough to fight drought, but many west African farmers abandoned the variety in favour of Asian strains that produce more grains per plant.
A communal project raising ostriches in the drought stricken areas of the Karas region is giving rural farmers a chance to escape the shackles of poverty.
Even as we speak, what worries us is the fact that our crop is failing because of the rains, because of the drought, and we are not the only ones who are hit with it.
Sirens are known to aestivate when in habitats subject to drought.
In view of the damage caused to the crops such as paddy, bajra etc, the government would declare drought so that relief could be extended to the affected farmers.
Species with leathery leaves such as agaves, aloes, echeverias and sanseverias are the obvious choice because they can tolerate extremes of heat, cold and drought.
Mr Holt has bad memories of the drought years of the sixties when hundreds of kangaroos were dropping dead around the homestead and the station bores.
The Panhandle has been the one bright spot during this ongoing drought.
Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and Bamiyan in northern Afghanistan also received heavy showers of rain and snowfall after a long spell of drought and dry weather.
Infection with mycotoxins is most common on grains damaged by insects, birds, mites, hail, early frost, heat and drought stress, windstorms, and other unfavorable weather.
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Southwest Nebraska still remains a concern due to effects from the prolonged drought on hydrological components including streamflow rates and reservoir recharge.
Her father runs an antique store and frequently sends the girls goods to quench the Berlin vintage drought.
He says the wool clip in pastoral areas is much better this year than last year when the drought was in full swing and quality has markedly improved.
He swept into power as a rambunctious, self-styled revolutionary, ending a 40-year drought for House Republicans.
With the drought and fire came high winds, dust storms, record temperatures, and ramped up evaporation levels.
Anne was instrumental in coordinating, with the assistance of the Barwon Group of the Country Women's Association, drought hampers that were dispersed amongst farmers in need.
It was captioned Preserve Your Forests From Destruction And Protect Your Country From Floods And drought.
From the drought in California to the women of ENIAC, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the web this week.
This is not their traditional business, but the successive drought and consequent crop failure have driven these farmhands to look for alternative employment.
Shortfalls of electricity occur periodically, when drought reduces water flow.
Now the port with the longest drought in Ulster history is planning a Christmas knees-up to end all knees-ups.
Worldwide, foliage deciduousness in angiosperms is believed to have arisen in tropical species as a response to periodic drought.
A serious drought in 1785 and 1786 caused a die-off of cattle, which ruined many peasant families, especially in the south.
However, early farmers were also adversely affected in times of famine, such as may be caused by drought or pests.
In addition, he repealed the taxes that Caligula had instituted on food, and further reduced taxes on communities suffering drought or famine.
In summer the anticyclones tend to bring dry, settled conditions which can lead to drought.
And now the drought is broken, let's be joyful in our gains. Let's kyoodle, whoop, and holler for these miliion-dollar rains!
Wells, in the three hole, extended his streak of at-bats without a home run to 134, the longest longball drought of his career.
Rainfall varies greatly from year to year, and patterns of alternate flooding and drought are common.
He also ended a 17 year major drought for English golfers since Nick Faldo's win at the 1996 Masters.
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Climate change also impacts island countries by causing natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, hurricanes, flash floods and drought.
During prolonged dry periods the foliage is dropped to conserve water and prevent death from drought.
This is usually due to high temperatures, high humidity, darkness or drought.
When the reservoir dried due to a drought in the 1980s and early 1990s the village became visible.
Water desalination plants are gradually being constructed to deal with recent years of prolonged drought.
Some of these rare and specific species are highly endangered because of habitat loss, pollution and drought.
Prolonged drought seems the most likely explanation for their demise and the remote nature of the island meant few visitors.
The ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate by causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels.
Lithuania experienced a drought in 2002, causing forest and peat bog fires.
A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply.
Though their effects on human populations are often devastating, tropical cyclones can relieve drought conditions.
Since 1970, dust outbreaks have worsened due to periods of drought in Africa.
The stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression resulted in widespread unemployment, worsened by drought and low agricultural prices.
Wind erosion is much more severe in arid areas and during times of drought.
Crops had not been good, due to a drought, and this imposition upon the communities led to new conflict.
Because a drought had disrupted his grain supply, Caesar was forced to winter his legions among the rebellious Belgic tribes.
In recent years, drought and economic mismanagement have resulted in a buildup of foreign debt.
Wichita Falls will almost certainly implement Stage 4 drought restrictions by the end of summer, and perhaps as early as June, Nix said.
Because of the population's small size, environmental hazards, such as drought, are capable of affecting the entire species.
According to myth, the ritual was created to ask the gods to end a severe drought.

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