Word: drought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Between the central U.N. and the agencies, examples of misused funds are all too easy to find. Last year the UNICEF office in Kenya had to be greatly expanded to cope with a sudden flood of refugees from Somalia and from a local drought. The agency pumped in $37 million, of which $10 million was found by a later audit to have been unaccounted for. During the height of the U.N. intervention in Somalia, U.N. agencies were spending $1 million a day to maintain their peacekeeping operations in the country, much of it devoted to elaborate support facilities in Mogadishu...
Rainfall could increase overall--but the increase wouldn't be uniform across the globe. Thus areas that are already prone to flooding might flood more often and more severely, and since water evaporates more easily in a warmer world, drought-prone regions and deserts could become even dryer. Hurricanes, which draw their energy from warm oceans, could become even stronger as those oceans heat...
...tree was ailing, partially because of the years of human weight piled upon its branches. In addition to the normal troubles of old age, this phellodendron amurense suffered from the past summer's 40-day drought...
...drought did not last, however...
...Cortlandt Park is a tough course, with many hills in the first two miles. In addition, the summer drought left the trail dusty and rocky...