Drought in sentence

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Well, all stresses, particularly drought stress, results in the formation of free radicals, or reactive oxygen species, which are highly damaging and can cause crop death.

Now, they came to an awareness partly because of the horrible drought that they have had.

We can't wait for the kind of drought Australia had to change our political culture.

The climate-related historic drought that started in Syria in 2006 destroyed 60 percent of the farms in Syria, killed 80 percent of the livestock, and drove 1.5 million climate refugees into the cities of Syria, where they collided with another 1.5 million refugees from the Iraq War.

By borrowing genes for anti-freeze protein from fish and genes for drought tolerance from other plants like rice and then stitching them into the plants that need them, we now have plants that can tolerate most droughts and freezes.

Unfortunately, when we got there, there was a drought going on during the peak migration, a five-week drought.

Our ancestors were very busy surviving poverty, drought, famine, riot, disease and civil war.

Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects.

It's a weather-based insurance agency, and what these countries do is to pay insurance each year, about 3 million dollars a year of their own resources, so that in the event they have a difficult drought situation or flood, this money will be paid out to them, which they can then use to take care of their populations, instead of waiting for aid to come.

This enabled them to take care of 1.3 million people affected by drought.

We comment on the news, we post our views on social media, we march, we protest ... But who among us is working on solutions, big solutions to big issues, like gun violence, mistreatment of workers, flood, famine, drought?

It's what allows elephants who survived a drought in their youth to recognize its warning signs in adulthood, which is why clans with older matriarchs have higher survival rates.

However, in that drought- and famine-prone region, fonio grows freely.

Prolonged drought can precipitate early marriage as families contend with scarcity.

Trees can also share information about events like drought or insect attacks through their fungal networks, causing their neighbors to increase production of protective enzymes in anticipation of threats.

In particular, I'm meeting a lot of indigenous Central Americans who can no longer sustain themselves by farming, due to catastrophic drought in the region.

That's what drought does.

In severe drought periods nobody has seen this water body getting dried up.

Here, here, Kenya, East Africa, they've actually just come out of a long drought.

Jaclyn was 14 years old and she was in her Masai family and there's a drought in Kenya.

The mayor defined the city's new normal as one of permanent drought.

By the end of the drought, this created such a sense of urgency as well as a sense of community.

Those two are much more tolerant to drought conditions than many other fruits and vegetables, and at the same time, they are considered high-value crops, both locally and internationally.

And it's very difficult to be happy on a planet that's racked with famine and drought.

Then in the same time, around 1980, we had a very big drought.

The oceans control, or at least significantly influence, correlate with, the growth patterns and the drought patterns and the rain patterns on the continents.

What they've realized is that if they can identify the traits on productivity and drought tolerance, they can produce 320 percent as much cocoa on 40 percent of the land.

Now, scientists can take this information about the rainfall and the vegetation and use it to understand what areas on Earth are in danger of a famine or a drought and provide that information to aid organizations so they can be prepared with food aid before the hunger becomes severe.

The movie starts off as we see a footage of a huge drought back in the 30's in America.

The break turned into making this film, which seeks to capture the mood of the interviews with Barnils' associates, thoughts about the Spanish Civil War, the drought season they were experiencing, the rugged landscape, the Recha brothers' affection for each other, swims and suntanned nudity and whatever characters or stories they ran into as they camped out of their van.

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