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3 kanaldan 5 kesitte geçiyor · B2–C1 · diğer biçimleri: droughts
For instance, causing winter droughts over the Mediterranean or the dieback of the Amazon rainforest.
Unpredictable heatwaves, droughts, and floods cripple small-scale farmers in Africa, Asia, and South America, who previously produced one-third of the world’s food.
Beneficial traits like drought tolerance are caused by specific genes encoded in a plant’s DNA — which is basically its molecular instruction manual on how to be a plant.
Like, in Mexico, Indigenous farmers have been breeding spineless cacti for centuries as a drought-tolerant crop to feed livestock.
The southwestern United States, southern Africa, and eastern Australia experience longer, more frequent, and more severe droughts.