And in recent years, a drought set in, making things worse and leading the food shortages for millions for people.

在近几，津巴布韦爆发旱灾，这无疑更是雪上加霜，百万计人们面临着食物短缺问题。

Drought-stricken California has been drenched with torrential rains.

遭受旱灾加州已被暴雨淋湿。

Researchers project that drought risk in California will only get worse as global temperatures rise.

研究人员认为，随着全球气候升温，加州旱灾风险将变得越来越大。

From too much water to too little, to pests, a lot can happen.

涝灾、旱灾，还有病虫害，存在各种不确定因素。

Having lost all his 25 cows in the devastating drought last year, he is worried about what these locusts and pesticides will do.

在旱灾中，他失了25头奶牛，他担心这些蝗虫和杀虫剂会造成（不）后果。

And it was a bad drought year in 1976.

1976是旱灾特别严重一。

We've seen more and bigger floods, fires, droughts, and storms.

我们正在见证愈演愈烈洪水、火灾、旱灾、暴风雨。

They estimate this is the worst drought in California in over twelve hundred years.

他们估计这是加州一千二百多来最严重旱灾。

They also counted Google queries, and saw drought-related searches spike as more news appeared.

他们还统计了谷歌搜索量，他们发现，有关旱灾搜索随新闻报道增多而上升。

A drought occurs when there hasn't been much rain for a long time.

长时间降雨较少，就会出现旱灾。

" We've had dry stuff but not like this, " he said.

" 我们经历过旱灾，但没有像这样严重" 。

And the peak of summer saw droughts of devastating intensity.

而盛夏巅峰又有异常严重旱灾。

The country's weather service said the region had been suffering from drought for 6 years.

该国气象局表示，该地区已连续6遭受旱灾。

I'm concerned about the drought in Kenya.

我很关注肯尼亚旱灾。

This followed nearly three years of drought and the driest year on record in 2013.

过三已经发生了旱灾，2013是创纪录最干旱。

Global warming, they say, will cause droughts, floods and rising oceans.

他们称全球变暖将带来旱灾、洪灾和海平面上升。

While no one event can be attributed to climate change, the East African drought of 2011-2012 contributed to a famine in Somalia, which contributed to the deaths of an estimated quarter of a million people.

尽管没有哪个事件可归因于气候变化，2011-2012间东非旱灾导致索马里出现饥荒，据估计造成25万人死亡。

This sum includes new humanitarian assistance of more than $87 million in food and non-food help for refugees and drought victims in Kenya and Somalia.

这笔资金再次为肯尼亚和索马里难民和旱灾受害者提供了人道主义援助，包括食物供给和非食物供给，总计超过8700万美元。

There may even be people who believe this and say this and are thankful there is a drought that may ruin them, because they know that it is all part of a marvelous plan for their long-term good.

或许有人会相信这一点，说到这一点时便感谢这场可能会毁掉他们旱灾，因为他们知道，这是一个了不起计划一部分，是为了他们长远利益着想。

China on Monday launched a level III emergency response for flood control as water levels of the Yellow River, the country's second-longest river, continue to rise following heavy rainfall, said the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR).

据水利部消息，受近期降雨影响，中国第二长河黄河水位持续上涨，水利部 9 月 27 日启动水旱灾害防御Ⅲ级应急响应。