In recent years there has been a marked increase in the frequency of high winds, heavy rains, summer droughts and flooding both from heavy rain and from high seas.

soil degradation ; deforestation ; desertification ; destruction of coral reef threatens marine habitats ; recent droughts affected marginal agriculture ; wildlife threatened by illegal hunting and trade, especially for ivory

several hurricanes in recent years ; frequent and severe droughts and floods ; occasional earthquakes ; rare tsunamis

In more recent years, the Ogaden has suffered from increasingly erratic rainfall patterns, which has led to an increasing frequency of major droughts: in 1984 – 85 ; 1994 ; and most recently in 1999 – 2000, during which pastoralists claim to have lost 70 – 90 percent of their cattle.

Although the present area of the lake's open water is, recent droughts and extraction of water from the Awash for irrigation has caused the water level of the lake to fall five meters.

While at least one particularly severe drought has been confirmed each century since the 17th century, the frequency and severity of recent Sahelian droughts stands out.

" The most recent of these droughts occurred between 1400 and 1750 CE ( 550 to 200 yr B. P.

In recent years, temperatures are rising and droughts are becoming more frequent because of global warming and the shifting weather patterns.

The wetlands have suffered from increasingly severe droughts in recent years.

deforestation ; desertification ; soil erosion ; overgrazing ; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare ; ash contamination from recent eruption of the Nabro Volcano.

According to estimates, as a result of desertification processes and pollution, biological productivity of the ecological systems in Turkmenistan has declined by 30 % to 50 % in recent decades.

More recent significant effects of land use include urban sprawl, soil erosion, soil degradation, salinization, and desertification.

attributed the atypically high frequencies of the haplogroup in the Masalit to either a recent population bottleneck that likely altered the community's original haplogroup diversity or to geographical proximity to E1b1b's place of origin in North Africa, where the researchers suggest that the clade " might have been brought to Sudan from [...] after the progressive desertification of the Sahara around 6, 000 – 8, 000 years ago ".

In recent years, the desert has expanded in some areas, its sands enveloping farms and villages as a result of desertification.

Each of these mutations alters the gene's protein product ( i. e., the enzyme ), sometimes severely inhibiting its function .< ref > In recent years, population studies and pedigree analysis have shown how such mutations arise and spread within small founder populations.

In recent years many new cultivars have been created, but the genus suffers severely from having many synonyms for many popular ones.

In May 2007, Kim donated $ 100, 000 of her $ 210, 000 prize money from winning the SemGroup Championship to victims of a recent tornado that severely damaged the town of Greensburg, Kansas.

According to recent Burr biography by David O. Stewart, Wilkinson was severely condemned in print by then-New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, some 65 years after the general's misdeeds, with this judgment: " In all our history, there is no more despicable character.

A recent case report described a closely related condition called prosopamnesia, in which the subject, from birth, could perceive faces normally, but had a severely impaired ability to remember them.

In this most senior judicial post, Lord Woolf spoke out at the University of Cambridge in 2004 against the Constitutional Reform Bill that would create a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to replace the House of Lords as the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom ; and he severely questioned the Lord Chancellor's and the Government's handling of recent constitutional reforms.

The cotton industry relies on irrigation and has been affected by recent drought with water allocations to farms severely reduced.

There has also been adverse comment about the recent extension of the many marina pontoons severely limiting the area of open water.

Even though career colleges have exploded in recent years, true government-sponsored vocational schools on the other hand have decreased severely in the United States and have largely been replaced by the various alternative trade classes offered at either trade-specific schools or by being merged with their community college cousins, which in addition to offering associate degrees and core university curriculum courses, also offer vocational classes depending on the needs of the local community, all units of which are capable of transferring to four-year institutions.

It was a devastating blow to the Melbourne rock scene, which had been severely depleted in recent years with the deaths of Guy Lucas ( Philistines, Freeloaders ), Mick Weber ( Seminal Rats ), and Sean Greenway ( GOD, Freeloaders, The Yes-Men ).

From 1986 to 1990 several solid gold stations evolved into full-time oldies stations by eliminating current and recent product, gradually eliminating 1980s songs, and even limited 1970s songs severely.

Games journalist and guide writer Alan Emrich has severely criticized recent strategy guides for:

In more recent times ( 2007 ), the numbers both within the reserve and without have been severely diminished to the point of near extinction as a result of extended drought.

In recent seasons, Toby has often been portrayed as severely lacking in confidence, and his stories often revolve around his overcoming of something he felt particularly daunting.

William Brooke O ' Shaughnessy, a recent graduate of Edinburgh Medical School, proposed in an article to medical journal The Lancet to inject cholera patients with highly-oxygenated salts to treat the " universal stagnation of the venous system and rapid cessation of arterialisation of the blood " seen in severely dehydrated cholera patients.

The company publishes non-fiction books and videos covering a wide range of specialty topics, including ( but not limited to ) personal and financial freedom, survivalism and preparedness, firearms and shooting, various martial arts and self-defense, military and police tactics, investigation techniques, spying, lockpicking, sabotage, revenge, knives and knife fighting, explosives, and other " action topics " ( though the availability of books on topics like improvised explosives has been severely curtailed in recent years ).

The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network has issued a recent report that estimates that 25 % of the world's reefs are severely damaged and another third are in grave danger.

Ongoing dam works ( including recent safety improvements ) have severely reduced weekend visitors.

While still largely accurate factually ( only rarely have ancient texts been emended so severely as to warrant a biographical change ), much is missing, especially more recent discoveries ( like Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, or the decipherment of Linear B ) and epigraphic material ; perhaps more seriously, the context in which ancient evidence is viewed has often changed in the intervening century and a half.

There is another route directly up the Stickle Stone Shoot: this route is steep and has become severely eroded in recent years and is no longer recommended as a means of ascent or descent.

The cultural revolution left it severely damaged but in recent years a lot of reconstruction work was done.

In recent times, Renton has seen some major social regeneration most notably, although not restricted to, housing ; Much of this can be attributed to Cordale Housing Association, who have revitalised what was a severely deprived area.

Acute malnutrition rates have risen to 13. 4 per cent in the southern Niger Maradi and Zinder departments, with 2. 5 per cent of this group identified as severely malnourished children under age five, says UNICEF quoting recent nutrition surveys by the United Nations and several non-governmental organizations.

He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Grays Ferry, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely.

In the recent political campaign two charges were leveled affecting the question of power, and I think we might begin by trying to put them into proper focus.

In recent years tourism has been threatened by the negative effects of the growing industrial economy, with large amounts of air and water pollution along with deforestation affecting tourism.

In recent decades economic historians, following Douglass North, have tended to move away from narrowly quantitative studies toward institutional, social, and cultural history affecting the evolution of economies.

Gout has increased in frequency in recent decades, affecting about 1-2 % of the Western population at some point in their lives.

The ganzfeld experiments are among the most recent in parapsychology for testing the existence of and affecting factors of telepathy, which is defined in parapsychology as the paranormal acquisition of information concerning the thoughts, feelings or activity of another person.

From the late 18th century to comparatively recent times, Battersea, and certainly north Battersea, was established as an industrial area, with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it.

In Iran, the dust is already affecting more than 5 million people directly, and has emerged as a serious government issue in recent years.

The lake had been partially drained in recent years because of a plan to limit the effect of rising water levels in Siwa due to agricultural runoff from uncontrolled wells ( a major problem affecting the entire oasis ); Fatnas Island is now surrounded mostly by mud flats.

Because of the recent flooding that is affecting Bangkok and the rest of Thailand, the airport has closed as flood waters flowed on to the runways and affected the lighting.

The Mirror Universe T ' Pol underwent pon farr at some point in the recent past ( it is not revealed if this was a natural occurrence or the result of the same virus affecting the " real universe " version of T ' Pol in Bounty ), and Trip mated with her in order to get her through it.

Throughout its history, the harbour has seen numerous reclamation projects undertaken on both shores, many of which have caused controversy in recent years due to environmental concerns concerning water quality and natural habitats in addition to economic concerns that benefits of land reclamation may be less than the effects of decreased harbour width, affecting the number of vessels passing through the harbour.

Wild bison and elk in the Greater Yellowstone Area ( GYA ) are the last remaining reservoir of Brucella abortus in the U. S. The recent transmission of brucellosis from elk to cattle in Idaho and Wyoming illustrates how the GYA is the last remaining reservoir in the United States, adversely affecting the livestock industry.

" Environmentalists are concerned about the uptake of elemental silver in a highly sensitive environment affecting the pygmy possum amongst other species as well as recent high level algal blooms in once pristine glacial lakes.

They pushed the bowhead whales to the edge of extinction for the oil in their tissue ( though in recent years, due to a decline in commercial whaling, their populations have rebounded enough for Natives to harvest many each year without affecting the population ).

More recent issues affecting broader society are, for example in 1976, legionnaires ' disease or legionellosis.

On 16 November 2007, after a 13 year career in football, Wanchope decided to put an end to his career, primarily based on how his old knee injury was affecting his performance on the field, the same injury that made him lose large parts of his career with Manchester City, making him unable to reach his best physical shape, an argument that was commonly criticized by the press during recent years in every club he played for.

The sewage systems affecting the lake have been better maintained in recent years, and the environmental state of the lake is currently much better than it was a decade or two ago.

In recent years, linguists have found many hidden associations affecting the neutrality of language, through the use of corpus linguistics and concordancing software.

By bringing alumni together with students and recent graduates, Princeton Project 55 provides many opportunities for building the commitment, leadership, and mentoring needed to solve critical issues affecting the public interest.

In recent years, the orthography of many word forms has changed, usually without affecting pronunciation and stress.

A major focus of McCulloch's more recent research has been on cellular and molecular mechanisms affecting the growth of malignant blast stem cells obtained from the blood of patients with Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia.

However, in recent years the mangroves within Malaysian territory have been seriously over-exploited, and this may now be affecting the fishery resources throughout the bay.