Significados de dzud en inglés

Usually, a dzud is likely to occur when a harsh winter follows a very dry summer.

His next worry is the dzud.

In 2009-2010, Mongolia lost 20 percent of its livestock to the dzud, the World Bank estimates.

Mongolia is in the midst of a winter phenomenon called a dzud, when extremely low temperatures and snow make it difficult for animals to survive.

The last dzud in 2009-2010 killed 9.7 million of the country's livestock, according to the National Emergency Agency of Mongolia.

Mass animal deaths due to a freezing winter, locally known as a "dzud", in a predominantly pastoral country would only make a bad situation worse.

However, agriculture is vulnerable to desertification as well as long freezing winters known locally as dzuds.