"There has been widespread famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

So as a result, they said there were droughts in these areas throughout that period and that caused tremendous unhappiness and discontent.

最后结果就是,他们说那个时期,在那个区域发生了干旱,从而致使,民生凋敝,民怨沸腾

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If there are droughts, pests, other things that interfere with the growing of the food you've got problems.

如果发生旱灾,虫灾,或其他妨碍食物生长的灾害,你就有麻烦了

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It says climate change has caused droughts and food insecurity in many areas.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Floods,droughts,pollution and climate change have created even more problems.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Scientists warn climate change will lead to rising sea levels, more devastating floods and hurricanes, longer lasting droughts and other extreme weather phenomena.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

They say the effects of more storms, floods,droughts and heat waves will be abrupt and profound.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Some climate scientists think the Australian continent is particularly susceptible to a shifting climate and predict a greater incidence of droughts, floods and storms as the Earth warms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

People lived on the edge of death." During the frequent droughts, Mohamed Ait Lamine and others left their families to look for work on construction sites in cities far away.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Roger Johnson says the science is convincing. And he doesn't think a climate change bill would hurt farmers nearly as much as climate change will, through droughts,floods and other extreme weather.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods,and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

The Copenhagen meeting drew about , 2,000 scientists from around the world, and the news they delivered was not encouraging as they warned of an increasingly warmer world with more frequent droughts, and food and health problems.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Galmudug regional government Minister of Planning Omar Mohamud warns that not implementing a long-term solution to the water problem will fuel the vicious cycle of droughts, hunger,and violence and keep the Somali people in the iron grip of poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06