So a particular one would be areas that are experiencing more severe droughts.

ElNino has the potential to cause severe droughts in Asia Pacific including India.

Furthermore, severe droughts have worsened the conditions in Central America.

Unpredictable severe droughts last for years, punctuated by equally unpredictable torrential rains and floods.

Clashes over water, livestock and pasture have long plagued Kenya's remote corners, particularly during severe droughts.

Chinese officials say cloud seeding has helped to relieve severe droughts and water shortages in cities.

The most recent El Niño has also caused severe droughts in Africa and devastating floods in Asia-Pacific countries.

But in other years more regular and severe droughts are depleting water and pasture and decimating pastoralists herds.

I hear of severe droughts in parts of Leichardt's Land, but have no information about the Leura district.

Scientists also determined that as long as high levels of greenhouse gases remain, severe droughts could become more frequent.

Amazonian forests are exposed to higher temperatures, faster temperature increases, and more frequent and severe droughts, than African forests.

There are some advantages to living in the midst of one of the most severe droughts in Californian history.

There is an exceedingly high birth rate; there are severe droughts; the countrywide unemployment rate is over 20%.

The scientists studied 1,300 forest sites worldwide using data on severe droughts beginning in 1948.

In response to the severe droughts of the early 2000s, the Murray-Darling basin plan was signed to secure its long-term ecological health.

Most grew in Northland - and area which would become much drier and experience more frequent and severe droughts, Dr Macinnis-Ng said.