"drought" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The global warming has caused massive droughts that have led to conflicts and famines.
- It is primarily farming land, and the massive drought in the Southeastern United States has decimated crops, venturing half a crop yield from 2000.
- Additionally a massive drought occurs at the same instance causing over 300,000 Somalians to perish.
- In John Vidal's report (22 July) on the famine in east Africa, he says the massive drought appeared "as if out of nowhere".
- China unintentionally played a role in the Arab Spring due to the effects of a winter wheat crop failure and a massive Chinese drought that occurred in January 2011.
- This massive drought led the Chinese to buy wheat on the international market, henceforth doubling prices and leading to civil unrest in Egypt - the world's largest wheat importer.
- Although the Russians were able to grow grain as far north as the Arctic Circle, a massive drought began east of the Rocky Mountains.
- The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms caused by a massive drought that began in 1930 and lasted until 1941.
- A couple of degrees is not dramatic, Hurricanes or massive drought are.
- During ancient times, however, the technology had yet to be developed and they did not have the proper scientific abilities to adapt to extreme changes like massive drought.
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