Outdoors during the dry season, usually from May to October.
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Water flow during the dry season is already decreasing noticeably.
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But the army routinely attacks rebel outposts during the dry season.
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Most burning happens during the dry season, which starts next month.
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It means enough water for my family during the dry season.
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Australia&aposs dry season still has another two months to go.
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And now, in the dry season, not even enough to get milk.
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Fires start in the underbrush that has been drying over the dry season.
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It was the end of the dry season and the land was parched.
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Typically, that dry season runs from July to October, peaking in late September.
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A long dry season this year has lowered expectations of the mid-crop.
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This survey is run every year before the dry season to identify crocs.
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Between the lines: It always burns in the Amazon during the dry season.
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Some samples were collected during Tanzania's dry season, others during the wet season.
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By the end of the dry season that usually falls to 219 metres.
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The dry season is expected to last through to April 30 next year.
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This regime is preparing to resume the war during the upcoming dry season.
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Nearly half the fires during 2015's prolonged dry season were on peaty soil.
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Peak of dry season is expected to occur from mid-August to mid-September.
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The ground here was always wet, even at the height of the dry season.
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Typically, the Amazonian dry season runs from July to October, peaking in late September.
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The dry season has just begun, so the fires can still get much worse.
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Relatives said the boys had been inside the labyrinthine complex during the dry season.
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A prolonged dry season has also impacted the quality of some beans, farmers have said.
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The country is currently in the dry season, which runs from mid-November to March.
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During the Amazon's dry season, blazes can also spark from natural sources, like lightning strikes.
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These forecasts should be closely watched in the coming months – especially as dry season approaches.
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I visited during the dry season, so I didn't experience the magical reflective effect firsthand.
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I visited Salar de Uyuni during November, which is part of the area's dry season.
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"California has a lot of people and a really long dry season," Dr. Williams said.
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Fighting was expected to escalate again now that the dry season had started, she said.
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The burning of fallow fields and a dry season with little wind exacerbate the crisis.
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Ivory Coast, the worlds top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March.
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AT THE start of every dry season fires creep southwards across the Central African Republic (CAR).
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The region is in its annual dry season, which runs from around mid-November until March.
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This generally happens through contaminated food and surfaces within people's homes -- particularly during the dry season.
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When the price of bitcoin is high enough, mining remains profitable even in the dry season.
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It was in the Imatong Mountains of Sudan, one day in the dry season of 2003.
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These measures aim to see the city through the final two months of the dry season.
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In the dry season, lakes shrink, rivers drop and the land becomes parched and sun-baked.
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AURELIEN BREEDEN Summer means the start of a dangerous dry season for many parts of Europe.
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Chaniago added that air quality always worsened during the dry season in Jakarta, between May and September.
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Last year's blazes were exacerbated by a mild El Nino weather pattern, which prolonged the dry season.
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During the Amazon's dry season, it is common for farmers to set fires illegally to clear land.
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Ivory Coast's dry season runs from November to March, when rain tends to be scarce or light.
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That means there could be more to come, since the Amazon's dry season doesn't peak until September.
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The dry season is from January to June, and the rainy season is from July to December.
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Based on weather forecasts the dry season will peak in September and end in October, Nugroho said.
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Bolsonaro has said that they are part of the usual annual burn, in this, the dry season.
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But even during the dry season, large fires aren't a natural phenomenon in the Amazon's tropical ecosystem.
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Last week, Mr. Bolsonaro signed an executive order forbidding fires during the dry season in the Amazon.
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The number of cases usually goes up as the dry season shifts into the monsoon, she added.
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Hippos can be very dirty as well—hippos living on the rivers during the dry season in Africa.
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During the two-month dry season, its water level falls, but it doesn't dry up, Mr. Zephirin said.
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It seems likely that this is an adaption to yearly rainy season/dry season cycles in the Amazon.
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In the dry season, water sources dry up, often leaving small ponds isolated from larger bodies of water.
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This cave ... is only visited when it's the dry season; when it's completely dry, people walk in there.
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Outbreaks generally occur during the region's dry season -- typically between November to February -- but this time it's persisting.
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State fire officials say current predictions are for the state's dry season this year to start in May.
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As it was dry season, most tracks had no water, but some did—the result of groundwater seepage.
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Because it was the dry season, most of the Salar de Uyuni looked like a geometrically patterned moonscape.
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The seven-mile-long cave system is simple enough to hike and climb through during the dry season.
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Fires in the region are up 77% from last year, and the dry season has just gotten started.
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The Amazon is not currently experiencing a severe drought, although we are only halfway through the dry season.
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Clans tend to gather in the dry season, when the amount of habitat capable of supporting elephants is restricted.
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So during the dry season several fires break out every day and smoulder away, releasing plumes of acrid smoke.
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More crops have cut the number of young men seeking itinerant employment in the cities during the dry season.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in the dry season, which runs from November to late February.
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During every dry season, brush fires sweep across the parched landscape, leaving behind leafless trees and baked, orange soil.
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On top of all that, a punishing dry season leaves the pair with little vegetation and scarce fresh water.
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The hapless utility could yet be hit with huge fire-related expenses this dry season, which ends in December.
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Usually, fires occur every year during the dry season, due to dry, hot conditions, or through farming and logging.
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"Harmattan" refers to the dry season in West Africa, when dusty winds from the Sahara Desert create distinct weather.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its dry season, which runs from November to late February.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in the dry season which runs from November to late February.
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And researchers learned that the sloth lived through a seven-month dry season bookended by two short rainy seasons.
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They observed hippos congregating in small stretches of fresh water in Tanzania and Kenya's Mara River during the dry season.
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The Amazon is several months into its dry season during which these fires can more easily spread out of control.
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Wildfires are common in the dry season, but are also deliberately set by farmers illegally deforesting land for cattle ranching.
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People frequently blame the dry season for the wildfires in the Amazon, but that is not quite accurate, he said.
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These ecosystems absorb water in the rainy season and slowly release it into streams and rivers during the dry season.
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As the dry season gives way to rains, protests will die down and the new ban will probably be lifted.
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"I am worried because it's the dry season and I don't have enough food to feed my children," she said.
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In rural areas, communities often store grains in their homes after the harvest to get them through the dry season.
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In Sichuan, specifically, ''the average power generation capacity during the wet season is three times that of the dry season.
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Right now, the lemur species is only found in places with the shortest dry season, researchers wrote in Current Biology.
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A new power network runs 63 freshly drilled wells for dry season irrigation and sprinklers and drips are in use.
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In early October, at the end of the dry season, the country had to shut down all its hydroelectric plants.
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During the annual dry season surrounding waters always turn salty, as brine from the sea pushes up the delta's channels.
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A fire hazard in the dry season, I said, and in winter storms there was the danger of falling limbs.
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That is a particular problem as climate change brings longer and hotter dry season and growing water stress, he said.
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Although the dry season has ended and rains have returned, some restrictions will remain through the summer, Mr. Vargas said.
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Canal operators try to store enough water in the rainy season to operate the canal fully during the dry season.
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The Thai government has said this year's dry season could extend beyond the usual period of April through to June.
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The larvae need stagnant water, so the worst-affected villages are those beside muddy pools left during the dry season.
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This infighting would only grow more contentious during the dry season, as the hippos squabble over less and less water.
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This year&aposs total has already blown past that, and Australia&aposs dry season has another two months to go.
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At least three people died and 19 went missing during the storms, which struck the country during a normally dry season.
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But when its water disappears in the dry season, locals must rely on acidic well water and fresh vegetables become pricey.
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During the dry season, the forest is a refuge for amorous elephants who come in from the plains nearby to breed.
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This is also the end of the dry season in the state, when vegetation tends to be most ready to ignite.
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So when he unadvisedly had the first round of rubber trees planted during the hot and dry season, the plants deteriorated.
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The war has "devastated agricultural production," and as South Sudan approaches its dry season, concerns over food and water are rising.
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The country has seen a little rain in recent days, but not enough to signal the end of the dry season.
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But even during the dry season, which lasts from July to November, tropical rainforests are some of the Earth's wettest ecosystems.
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A few surprises—an unexpected dry season or a change in global crop prices—can send a farmer tumbling into bankruptcy.
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The best time to visit the Cordillera de los Frailes is during the dry season, from late April to mid-November.
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She usually stacks it at her farm during the dry season, for use later at home when the rains set in.
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In the dry season, when temperatures climb as high as 110 Fahrenheit, most wildcatters retreat to their huts around 9 a.m.
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Because few of Kathmandu's slums are connected to the water grid, they're completely dependent on outside assistance during the dry season.
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The wide open spaces, and the distinctive seasons — a hot dry season is followed by monsoon rains — make burning more predictable.
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The irrigation development program aims not only to help farmers but boost supplies of food in Cameroon's cities during the dry season.
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The ecosystem in and around the park soaks up more than 3 meters of rainfall each year, with no real dry season.
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The country has seen a bit of rain in recent days, but not enough to signal the end of the dry season.
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"[It] helps me to pay for some things during the dry season when there isn't a lot of money around," she says.
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Space agency INPE, however, said the large number of wildfires could not be attributed to the dry season or natural phenomena alone.
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During the rainy season, the sand absorbs water, which can then be used in homes and for irrigation in the dry season.
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Protests against charcoal traders broke out earlier this year, after rivers that usually flow throughout the dry season started to run dry.
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"More vigilance is essential during the dry season to make sure that possible breeding areas are checked and cleaned regularly, " Noorden said.
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This year's dry season is affected by a mild El Nino weather pattern, said Fachri Radjab at Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency.
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Mr Paes stresses that the games will take place in the dry season; cases of dengue normally drop in August and September.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is on the cusp of the dry season which runs from mid-November to March.
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Costa Rica has two seasons: December to April is dry season (high season) and May to November is rainy season (low season).
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Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, has no immediate plans to combat the fires, dismissing them as part of South America's usual dry season.
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As the seasons change, so does their diet — from plant-heavy in the wet season to meat-heavy in the dry season.
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Thailand has entered its annual dry season, which typically runs from March to May, meaning the drought is likely to get worse.
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An unusually wet dry season linked to the La Nina weather phenomenon this year has helped stop fires from spreading, Nugroho said.
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All in all, whether you visit during the wet season or dry season, Salar de Uyuni will surely take your breath away.
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The glaciers are the source of water for much of the coast during Peru's dry season, which extends from May to September.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March, when downpours are scarce or poor.
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With additional supply coming from the dry season harvest, Dar told reporters the Philippines has enough rice for the next four months.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March, when downpours are scarce or poor.
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Thailand's dry season started in November and usually lasts through April, although this year authorities say it could go on through June.
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If you're going in dry season, you'll contend with more tourists but you'll also have the option of a more direct journey.
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The state's system of reservoirs, another key source of water during the dry season, are also at levels not seen in years.
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We know that in recent years, the wildfire happens oftentimes in dry season in Cali, so this time is preventative power cut.
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And critically, mountains are losing snowpack, which is vital for providing people with water (via snowmelt) during the warm or dry season.
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Satellite data show a drastic rise in the year-on-year deforestation rate starting in May, the beginning of the dry season.
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The forest's dry season started to lengthen in the 1970s; the rains which used to come in October now come in November.
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The dry season is usually a feast for the lions, but in these conditions they have to use creative tactics to survive.
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Kaoh Rong introduces three tribes – Brains, Brawn and Beauty – who are battling for island supremacy in the brutal heat of Cambodia's dry season.
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LOOSUK, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In this arid part of northern Kenya, water can be hard to find, particularly in the dry season.
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A group of Aboriginal rangers discovered thousands of pieces of rock art while conducting dry-season burn-offs in Australia's West Arnhem region.
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Thailand's rainy season usually ends in late November but this year heavy rain has fallen well into what should be the dry season.
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But the borehole produces so little water at the peak of the dry season that storing rainwater has become a necessity, he said.
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Increasing water in the dry season would shrink riverbeds, leaving less space for crops—millions of Mekong-basin dwellers grow vegetables on riverbanks.
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"Usually commodities that collapse during a wet dry season are sugar and tobacco," said Nurhayati, who heads the BMKG agriculture climate forecasting division.
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Dr. Catania noted that during the dry season, the pools in which the eels live become smaller and shallower, leaving them no escape.
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Thailand's rainy season usually ends in late November, but this year heavy rain has fallen well into what should be the dry season.
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Each rainy season, the river fills and floods nearby forests and rice paddies before retreating in the dry season to expose fertile soil.
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There are normally fires in the dry season, from July to October, which is when ranchers and farmers are more likely to burn.
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Researchers project the water stresses in the region from climate change will increase in the coming decades as the dry season gets drier.
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Game viewing is best from April through October, the dry season, when the rivers in Chobe National Park attract an estimated 50,000 elephants.
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During the last year of its life, the sloth endured a seven-month dry season that was bookended by two short rainy seasons.
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"The peak of the dry season will still be hitting the Amazon in 60-days' time, when that moratorium is lifted," says Barlow.
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The country has spent months this year battling blazes as the El Nino weather pattern has caused a more severe annual dry season.
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The rainy season through April appeared to have held off a spike in deforestation that subsequently came with the dry season starting in May.
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Mitri said he issued several warnings about the increased threat of forest fires at the beginning of the dry season, which started in June.
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Now he has installed the PCI app on his phone and hopes that it will come in handy when the next dry season starts.
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She says she used to have no problem irrigating her crops but now the river flow slows to a trickle in the dry season.
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The dry season runs from mid-November to March, ahead of which farmers say they need rain to maintain soil moisture and boost yields.
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Indonesia is vulnerable to forest fire in the dry season, often started by uncontrolled fire used by farmers to clear out land for cultivation.
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The summer of 2018 also turned out to be a dry season as temperatures surged into triple digits in many parts of the state.
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During the dry season, which typically begins in March and ends in May, parts of the river are low enough to cross by foot.
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The country's Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has forecast that the dry season is likely to extend to late November, putting more land under threat.
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And he's been noticing that the water in the dry season is so low that the boats can't make their way through the swamp.
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Mr. Parra sees another emerging threat: In recent years, there have been dry periods during the rainy season, and rain during the dry season.
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But they warn that there is a risk of fires spreading to adjacent forest as the region hits the peak of its dry season.
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If the safrinha planting is also pushed back, the crop could be attempting to pollinate and fill closer to the onset of dry season.
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Despite Mato Grosso's success with the 2010/11 soybean harvest, the safrinha harvest was extremely disappointing that year as dry season came too quickly.
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The number of fires each year is correlated with the area of deforestation and the severity of the drought during the dry season. 5.
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While mountain snowpacks that store water for the dry season have rebounded from record lows, it's still not enough to offset the arid years.
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He spotted one seen nowhere else, a medium-sized yellow songbird, on nine occasions during the county's annual dry season lasting from November to February.
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They betray the lions, hyenas and wild dogs who visit in the night, drawn to livestock and, in the dry season, the community's water supply.
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Pollution in Bangkok has reached unhealthy levels before, usually during the dry season between January and March, but it doesn't normally hang around too long.
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Even when it is fully functioning, the canal cannot supply the capital region with enough water to meet its needs, especially in the dry season.
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The force remains modest in size, with most marines sent to Darwin for a six-month rotation in the dry season from April to October.
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The dry season in the world's top cocoa producer stretches from mid-November to March and it is normally very hot in February and March.
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Herders use the land in the dry season, with cattle droppings fertilising the soil, while farmers cultivate the same land during rainy season, he said.
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"The timing of my trip coincided with the dry season, so wherever you are the animals have to come up for water," Burrard-Lucas says.
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The water-filled tracks offer "temporary, predator-free breeding habitat for [frogs] during the dry season when alternate sites are unavailable," according to the study.
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Our group of Cornell students learned that rains now fall during what was once the dry season, interfering with seed set and reducing rice yields.
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The state hoards the water in the lake during Florida's dry season for fear that it won't be able to deliver water for agricultural uses.
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Warmer conditions because of climate change can allow blazes that crop up during the Amazon's dry season to grow bigger than they otherwise might have.
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Drought has hit large parts of Indonesia as El Nino disrupts the dry season, which is expected to last until October, the climate agency says.
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The dry season, which varies among parts of the Amazon but runs several months up to September, has been particularly dry this year, Dias said.
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Brazil's federal government is preparing a presidential decree forbidding fires to clear land in the country during the dry season, the presidency said on Wednesday.
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CBS used the summer, which is usually a dry season for television, to air the first season of The Good Fight, an All Access exclusive.
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The Lower Mekong River experienced record drought last year, and many parts along it have seen lower than usual water levels in the dry season.
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Vietnam '0003 They were burning brush, as they always do in the dry season, when my plane came in over the Vietnamese coast at dusk.
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During the dry season, it had to be constantly refilled by government officials, the fire department or locals ferrying barrels of water in their trucks.
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Last year's forest fires were at peak levels due to the prolonged dry season, and lasted months longer than usual, until the rainy season finally arrived.
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They found that 70 percent of gut bacteria disappeared between the end of the dry season and beginning of the wet season, only to reappear later.
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The scientists observed he Rekambo population of chimps from July 2016 to May 2018, but the tortoise-eating behavior was only seen during the dry season.
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Indonesia's coffee, cocoa and palm oil crops are unlikely to be impacted severely by La Nina, she said, while a wetter dry season benefits rice production.
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The dry season in the world's top cocoa producer runs from mid-November to March, while the weather is normally extremely hot between February and March.
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This season, many Ivorian cocoa farmers have been harvesting small beans with a high acid content due to a prolonged dry season and harsh desert winds.
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Years of deforestation have stripped away the soil's ability to conserve water, leading to shortages in the dry season when most of the surface water evaporates.
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The study said the thaw will disrupt rivers including the Yangtze, Mekong, Indus and Ganges, where farmers rely on glacier melt water in the dry season.
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The river is closed to tourists during the dry season, and over the past decade, he said, the season has seemed to arrive earlier each year.
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Farmers wait until the dry season to start burning and clearing areas so their cattle can graze, but this year's destruction has been described as unprecedented.
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Demand for water is growing so swiftly that tanker operators can't meet all orders in the dry season, no matter how much they hike their prices.
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Thick haze from fires had drifted to neighboring countries at the height of the dry season last month, triggering a diplomatic dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia.
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During the dry season in Chapada Diamantina National Park in northeast Brazil, from September to December, he wakes up every morning and automatically surveys the sky.
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Ivory Coast, the worlds top cocoa producer, is in its dry season, which runs from November to March, when rain tends to be scarce or light.
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The imperiled waterways include the Sao Francisco, Brazil's longest river outside the Amazon, where water levels are hitting never-before-seen lows in the dry season.
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The dry season, which traditionally lasted from mid-February to June, is increasingly extending into July and August, delaying the start of much-needed rainfall for planting.
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While climate change is intensifying the dry season and increasing fire risks, PG&E has come under fire for failing to fix the state's ailing power grid.
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When he was young the water of the Kapuas was clear; in the dry season you could see to the bottom, a few metres below the surface.
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Although fires are a regular and natural occurrence during the dry season at this time of year, environmentalists blamed the jump on farmers clearing land for pasture.
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Climate scientist Carlos Nobre said farmers seeking to clear land for cattle pastures wait for the dry season when forests become combustible and then set them alight.
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Meteorologists forecast the coffee belt to shift to the dry season ahead of harvest, which is still a month away as beans finish filling out and maturing.
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Benson Sutek, another resident of Olenarau, used to walk 8km (5 miles) daily in search of water during the dry season before the sand dam was constructed.
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Farmers increase their yields of organic produce, and come dry season, herders' cattle eat the remaining crops, making the animals healthier, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The dry season is their time to escape the arid Sahel in search of pasture for their enormous droves—burning forest and poaching wildlife along the way.
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In the dry season, when Wu visited, the salt crystals dry into an intricate latticework of tile-like polygons stretching away to the horizon in every direction.
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The December-to-May dry season usually intensifies clashes and there is little chance of peace talks to end the war, diplomats and analysts said last month.
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Giving up the chainsaw On a long beach just 10 minutes from the clinic is a café selling iced sugarcane juice, a favorite in the dry season.
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"Many rice mills are refusing to sell due to uncertainty over supply during this dry season," a Bangkok-based rice trader said, echoing the concerns of others.
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In the Kahemba district of Bandundu, almost 2,000 children were crippled during one dry season—a span of a few months from June to September of 2009.
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But in the dry season, they also dig for tubers and eat lots of meat, because it is easier to hunt for animals on a parched landscape.
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The fire broke out at the end of the area's dry season, he said, adding that "extreme" off shore winds were pushing the fire in several directions.
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Whether this year's figures represent an acceleration of that process or an exception to the trend will only become evident next summer, when the dry season returns.
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Despite a ban issued by Bolsonaro against intentional burning at the end of August, the fires are still burning, and will likely continue through the dry season.
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The outbreaks peak in the dry season in certain states due to the low humidity and dusty conditions and usually end as the rainy season approaches, Ihekweazu said.
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For now, the system allows Kouna residents to benefit from an off-season crop, which grows when the river recedes from its flood plain in the dry season.
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Ivory Coast's dry season runs from mid-November to March but farmers still rely on periodic showers to aid the development of the April-to-September mid-crop.
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The animals overgraze land, spread disease, and devastate dry-season soil amid uncontrollable fires that are lit by herders to clear dense brush and encourage new grass growth.
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I rearranged my itinerary to get there by the end of the dry season in early October, and even then, many tourism companies were starting to shut down.
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"The dry season creates the favorable conditions for the use and spread of fire, but starting a fire is the work of humans, either deliberately or by accident."
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Reality check: Brazil's dry season often results in wildfires, but the country has not seen "blazes of a scale not seen in nearly a decade," per the NYT.
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California is deep into its dry season, with many hillsides covered by combustible brush, and many areas, including San Francisco, have experienced record high temperatures in recent days.
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In the western region of Soubre, at the heart of the cocoa belt, farmers said they expected the dry season to be relatively mild as rainfall remained abundant.
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An El Nino weather pattern this year has intensified annual dry-season fires, often caused by slash-and-burn clearing of forests and bush for farming, including plantations.
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He added that total capacity would only be reached in the annual rainy season starting around April, and output would likely be less during the current dry season.
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In early 2016, the faster onset of dry season led to one of the worst safrinha harvests in the country's history, which supported corn exports from competing countries.
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The dry season is getting longer, and scientists are finding imprints of deforestation in the record droughts seen in major cities like São Paulo, some 1,500 miles away.
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ISHIARA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Even during the dry season, Venanzio Njiru's farm stands out as a rare patch of lush greenery in this arid part of east Kenya.
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A 22-year-old trained indigenous environmental agent, Parintintin blames the increasing development of the Amazon for bringing agriculture and deforestation, resulting in rising temperatures during the dry season.
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The dry season brought dust and sand and grit that got into everything; the rains bore insects, disease and overflowing sewage, and turned the roads into slurry and bogs.
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Initial conditions going into the area's dry season so far suggest this could be the toughest year for wildfires since 2002, according to a fire forecast released last week.
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The region suffers every dry season from so-called haze caused by smoldering fires, often set deliberately to clear land for palm oil plantations on Sumatra and Borneo islands.
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Fires Indonesian farmers use to clear land during the dry season can rage out of control, bringing a choking haze that can affect neighbors such as Singapore and Malaysia.
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The region suffers every dry season from so-called haze caused by smouldering fires, often set deliberately to clear land for palm oil plantations on Sumatra and Borneo islands.
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What's left is black-gray hillside that officials and residents alike fear will become ashy waves of floodwater with the first rain of a so far bone-dry season.
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While this is the dry season for the area, during which fires are common, fires have nonetheless reached unprecedented highs this season — up 22019 percent compared to last year.
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"Despite the threat for flash flooding and mudslides, this rain will help to further fill area reservoirs prior to the dry season this summer," AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rathbun said.
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In the current dry season, Jakarta has consistently ranked among the world's most polluted cities, based on data from Air Visual, a Swiss-based group that monitors air quality.
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Now, officials contend, the militants are left to scrounge for food in the sparse Sambisa Forest during the dry season, or go out raiding for whatever they can find.
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The Brazilian government has denied encouraging recent fires allegedly set by farmers seeking to extend the agricultural frontier in the Amazon and blame the surge on the dry season.
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Accordingly, Stears and his colleagues found, the sub-adult males would wander back downstream, which had been depopulated in the dry season, to try once more to establish territory.
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Plenty of cherelles were proliferating on trees after good rains last week, ensuring good harvests from February onwards despite the start of the dry season in November, farmers said.
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It is far too early to start making assumptions about safrinha based on recent weather, although some of the tougher years followed a late exit from the dry season.
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But he said it was unlikely that the migratory birds that feed at the lake during the winter dry season would see any benefits from the proposed sluice gate.
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In the dry season, when the storms break and the research season begins, Mr. González heads to the icy heights of the nearby peaks with survey prisms and markers.
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After a nine episode arc, where the fight lubricated an otherwise dry season (that is until episode 12, when the first Tristan Thompson story broke), the hyped-up conflict ended.
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"I now produce enough tomatoes for our local markets and to supply to bigger markets in Douala and Yaounde even in the dry season," said Awangtung, a farmer in Santa.
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Dry season there runs from January to March, when conditions are perfect for expansive burns (the southern Amazon basin dries out in the summer, and this season produced widespread fires).
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"The dry season creates the favorable conditions for the use and spread of fire, but starting a fire is the work of humans, either deliberately or by accident," Setzer said.
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During the dry season from June to August, Kyakatarihwa dam is the only source of water for people and livestock alike in this remote part of southwest Uganda's Mbarara district.
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Fires in Indonesia, often set in the dry season by companies clearing land for plantations, cause an annual "haze" crisis that blankets large parts of the region in choking smog.
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Scarce showers during the dry season, which runs from November to late February, are crucial for cocoa crops to withstand the heat in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer.
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The dry season has overstayed its welcome in many areas of the top-exporting country, and this is seen as a potential hindrance to the planting efforts that just began.
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The spartan system allows Matongo to collect enough water to get through the dry season – an ever more difficult task in this arid, sparsely populated area of Zimbabwe's Manicaland province.
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The life of the river has adapted to monsoon floods that bring silt and allow fish to migrate and a dry season that leaves land exposed where birds can breed.
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"During the dry season, we suffer a lot of water shortages, we can't find land to build toilets," said Thomas Tweh, whose nongovernmental group focuses on water and sanitation issues.
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The wet season for central and southern Brazil – where most of the safrinha corn is grown – starts to taper after March and the dry season generally settles in by June.
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"This is the height of the dry season, hence the height of the number of hot spots," Agus Wibowo, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency, said by text message.
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Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is still in the dry season which runs from November to March, and will soon enter the rainy season that begins in April.
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The center-west state has been making a slower-than-usual transition out of its dry season, and the soil conditions have further deteriorated in the hot temperatures this month.
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The western ranges of the "brown" Andes - with a marked dry season - are dotted with remains of ancient infrastructures dedicated to managing water, said Jorge Recharte, director of TMI's Andes program.
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But now people drilling for groundwater cannot find it, boreholes are running out of the precious resource, and in the dry season, water is low in lakes and rivers, Jeconious warned.
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This dietary choice may have had something to do with the availability of food, but as the authors pointed out in the study, fruit is in abundance during the dry season.
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To learn more, a WCS-Myanmar team led by Steven Platt visited the Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary in March 2016 and again in March 2017—months that coincided with Myanmar's dry season.
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In the wet season, Florida dumps massive amounts of Okeechobee's nutrient-rich water into the most delicate ecosystems, while in the dry season, that water is diverted to farms and cities.
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Ivory Coast, the worlds top cocoa producer, is in its dry season from November to March, with most farmers reporting supply tightness from the bush as the main crop tails off.
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"The last five months have been the driest dry season in the history of the canal," said Carlos Vargas, the Panama Canal Authority's executive vice president for environment, water and energy.
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Southeast Asia has suffered for years from dry-season bouts of smoke caused by fires, many in Indonesia, set to clear land, raising worries about health and the impact on tourism.
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Under these circumstances, their embryos enter a stage of dormancy called embryonic diapause, a reproductive strategy that extends their gestational period and helps them survive unfavorable conditions, like a dry season.
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In Phnom Penh during the dry season, when temperatures routinely reach above 100 degrees, women on scooters are more likely than not to be wearing heavy, hooded sweatshirts and felt gloves.
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Environmentalists say man-made diversions, including agriculture and hydroelectric dams, have helped alter water levels to a degree that long stretches of the river are now unnavigable during the dry season.
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Indonesian farmers use fire to clear land during the dry season but they can rage out of control and produce a choking haze that spreads to neighbors such as Singapore and Malaysia.
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It's common for farmers to start fires in the Amazon to clear cropland during July and August, the rainforest's dry season, to maintain farmland and clear land for other purposes, NASA said.
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China's bitcoin mining industry is a case in point: Production of hydropower is high in the wet season during the summer months and low in the dry season during the winter months.
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In places like Zambia and Malawi, most of the existing capacity comes from hydroelectric plants built in colonial times or shortly after independence, which often do not run in the dry season.
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While the summer months can be a contributing factor to fires in the Amazon, experts say the dry season has not been extreme enough to cause such a drastic increase in wildfires.
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The complex, in Chiang Rai Province near the border with Myanmar, is known as Tham Luang Nang Non and is a tourist attraction during the dry season, which usually ends in April.
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"The water's all out of the reservoir now and the water levels are already going down but I don't think they'll be able to fix it until the dry season," he said.
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The national open has shifted from a fall to a spring date during the start of the Lombardy region's dry season and, if the weather cooperates, Gardagolf should play fast and firm.
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The district in Indonesia's province of Central Kalimantan on Borneo is home to 126,000 people, and about a fifth of its 95 villages are vulnerable to forest fires in the dry season.
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To help, we've rounded up the best hand creams to pop in the side pocket of your tote bag now, to keep your hands and cuticles buttery soft through the dry season.
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With access to irrigation, farmers in Akum and Santa – many of them women – can produce five vegetable harvests a year, including during the dry season, when demand and prices are highest, Nutoto said.
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As a result, "villages have emptied out", he said, with most of his neighbors heading to cities last year after their rainy season crop failed, along with the dry season crop following it.
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Drought has hit large parts of the archipelago as a mild El Nino disrupts the dry season, weather officials say, with its peak now expected to run from mid-August to mid-September.
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Although fires are a regular and natural occurrence during the dry season at this time of year, environmentalists blamed the sharp rise on farmers setting the forest alight to clear land for pasture.
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Dr. Pruetz could often find them lurking in small caves in the dry season, and when the rainy season arrived, the chimpanzees would slip into newly formed ponds and bob there for hours.
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Each dry season, hundreds of thousands of cows are herded south from Chad and Sudan in search of fresh vegetation, a yearly practice known as transhumance, now intensified by drought, desertification, and war.
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"Water security is likely to pose a bigger challenge as climate change leads to less water in the dry season and heavier deluges in the rainy season," said Eddy Njoroge, the fund's president.
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If the coming dry season in Nigeria follows the pattern of previous years, violence will soon erupt between herders in search of water for their cattle and farmers determined to protect their land.
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Brave a rough drive (thank you Tucson and your 5 Star ANCAP safety rating!) in the dry season (June to October) and you'll find the most magical view through your panorama glass roof.
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The storms also brought snow to the Sierra Nevada mountains, reviving the state's ski industry and leaving a deep snowpack to melt in the spring and summer, providing water during California's dry season.
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Early signs suggest the main crop could be around a quarter below its four-year average due to a long dry season for which the current weather has failed to compensate, exporters said.
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Authorities have said since November that though bush fires are expected during the country&aposs dry season, a combination of factors like extraordinary heat, wind, and long-term climate change is exacerbating conditions.
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After a quieter wet season in the summer, experts now fear clashes could surge again as the dry season begins, forcing herders to move south towards greener land and water supplies, often across farmland.
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The IPMT methodology will enable the Indonesian authorities to better manage peatlands, and help them create canals and wetting systems to protect peat in the dry season, WRI's Samadhi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Just under 90 minutes by car north of Orlando, this one-time All America City Award title holder (1995) boasts a dry season each October through May that features mild temperatures and uninterrupted sunshine.
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Given seasonal rainfall patterns, it's doubtful to impossible to avoid this once-unthinkable situation, since the region is in the midst of its typical dry season and unlikely to get much rain before then.
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She, her husband and their two sons have worked at the kiln during the December-May dry season for three years, making about 1,000 bricks a day - the quota set by the kiln owner.
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Although the practice has been occurring for decades, an especially long dry season, caused in part by a strong El Niño, resulted in what scientists say were the worst fires and haze ever recorded.
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The Times reports that Boko Haram fighters have had to scavenge for food in the picked-over Sambisa Forest in the midst of dry season, or raid anyplace in reach that might have food.
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But as a rule, the clearest skies in the mountains comes early in the morning, and the hiking trails will be in the best shape during the winter dry season from May to November.
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I never saw anything more mechanical than a single bicycle, which had been converted to use as a man-powered paddle wheel that moved water from one paddy to another during the dry season.
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Drought has hit large parts of the archipelago as a mild El Nino weather pattern disrupts the dry season, weather officials say, with its peak now expected to run from mid-August to mid-September.
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This measurement is used by water use planners to anticipate water availability during the dry season, as well as flood control officials who need to watch out for the risk of flooding from rapid snowmelt.
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Water is so hard to obtain in the dry season that there is an expression, "water for water", which refers to girls trading sex for access to a tap where they can fill their buckets.
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But drought and an encroaching dry season force the elephants away from their home and toward a far-away savanna, where they might be able to find the water and food they need to survive.
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According to Catania, this kind of aggressive attack is well-suited for when the eels find themselves stranded in small bodies of water as water from heavy rainfall recedes dramatically once the dry season arrives.
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The clash is the worst during the dry season, which is tapering off right now, when the shrinking amount of pastureland shrivels into yellow straw and the rural areas ringing Nairobi turn into dead country.
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The fact that China said the dams could help to regulate the water levels on the Mekong - providing more water in the dry season and storing it in the monsoon - was itself worrying, she said.
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The dry season is more acute than usual because of the El Nino climate pattern, the meteorological department has said, and more than a quarter of the country's main reservoirs have reported low water levels.
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By the height of the dry season in July and August, some experts feared that criminal loggers and ranchers, who use fire to prepare land for crops and pasture, were clearing the Amazon with impunity.
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In 2012 scientists at the University of Leeds predicted that continued deforestation would cause rainfall in the Amazon to drop by 12% in the wet season and by 21% in the dry season by 2050.
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The irrigation project has helped cut shortages of vegetables, particularly during the dry season, and helped boost the planting success of farmers during that period from less than 10 percent to over 90 percent, Nutoto said.
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Although fires are a regular and natural occurrence during the regular dry season at this time of year, environmentalists blamed the sharp rise in Brazil on farmers setting the forest alight to clear land for pasture.
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Randerson told CNBC that the trees emit stored moisture during the dry season, in a kind of "positive feedback cycle" that helps sustain them in drier periods, and maintains enough moisture to keep fires from spreading.
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A drop in rainfall at the beginning of the November to February dry season has lessened the threat of black pod disease, farmers said, though some light rain has maintained a good level of soil moisture.
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In the state's San Andreas fault, there was an increase in small earthquakes in late summer and early fall over the past 9 years as rain and snow left the mountains, heading into the dry season.
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" Fore said she had visited towns in the country's north and witnessed widespread malnutrition among children and warned: "We are heading into the dry season... we might lose up to quarter million children in South Sudan.
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The cattle camps - where South Sudan's nomads migrate to find pasture during the December to May dry season - are some of the world's most remote, nestled between the arms of the Nile in Lakes State's swamps.
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Unlike in 2010, when Kula's family had to depend on food aid, the herder can rest easy in the knowledge that his main source of income will remain intact at the end of the dry season.
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"Another unfortunate thing is, when these people come - including governments - they look for the wettest parts of the dry lands which the pastoralists have traditionally reserved for dry season grazing," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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A study published in 2015 by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife determined that marijuana gardens had depleted a number of creeks and streams during the dry season, imperiling salmon and trout in the waterways.
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During the dry season, from December through April (when most tourists visit the glades because it is virtually bug-free), these stands of swamp cypress rise, leafless and bone white above the grass, visible for miles.
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During the dry season, from December through April (when most tourists visit the glades because it is virtually bug-free), these stands of swamp cypress rise, leafless and bone white above the grass, visible for miles.
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The Southeast Asian country has spent months battling fires, often caused by slash-and-burn farming practices, as an El Nino weather pattern exacerbates the annual dry season and helps create a haze across the region.
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"Our findings unravel the ultimate causes of the recent intensification - wet season getting wetter, and dry season getting drier - of the water cycle of the largest hydrological basin of the planet," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Although fires in the Amazon basin are a regular and natural occurrence during the dry season at this time of the year, environmental activists have blamed the sharp rise on farmers setting alight clear land to pasture.
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"The coming dry season in South Sudan will, absent a change in the current conflict dynamics, see further fighting and civilian suffering as the government continues to pursue military victory over political compromise," the U.N. monitors wrote.
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Every dry season - usually from June until October - large parts of Southeast Asia are shrouded in pollution caused by forest fires in Indonesia, many set deliberately to clear land for pulp and paper and palm oil plantations.
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Output in the world's second-largest rubber producer will be impacted this year by the long dry season seen in the second half of 2015, Soedargo said, but he does not expect further weather disruptions in 2016.
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During the dry season in the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar (formerly Burma), some elephant tracks fill up with water, creating a wet place for frogs to lay their eggs and for tadpoles to grow to maturity.
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During this dry season, if farmers and loggers set fire to the rainforest for industrial or agricultural use, hot temperatures and dry air caused by climate change can allow the blazes to spread further and more rapidly.
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SNEL currently produces about 850 MW of power, and "if there is not an improvement in the levels of rainfall, there is a risk that we will lose 350-400 MW" during the dry season, Kitakani said.
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Prashant Bhushan, a prominent Indian public interest lawyer, proposed implementing the plan as a nationwide, all-adults expansion of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, a job-guarantee program that supports rural farmers during the dry season.
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"We cannot dominate the environment like what we do during the dry season, but effort is geared towards regaining back our areas," he told reporters in Abuja after an emergency meeting with Nigeria's acting president and military chiefs.
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HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An extended dry season, runaway wildfires and a lack of foreign currency for maize seed, fertilizer and fuel suggest Zimbabwe's small-scale farmers may face a tough growing season ahead, officials and farmers say.
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A priority was to get as much water into the reservoir as possible before the dry season when it is needed for irrigation, said Kaung Myat Thein, an irrigation official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation.
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Fires were particularly bad in 2015 because of a prolonged dry season caused by the El Nino weather pattern, with smoke blanketing neighboring Singapore and Malaysia for weeks and drifting as far north as the Thai capital, Bangkok.
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During the dry season, Indonesian farmers use fire to clear land, often for palm and pulp plantations, but the flames can rage out of control to produce a choking haze that spreads to neighbors like Singapore and Malaysia.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of Indonesians prayed for rain in haze-hit towns on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo on Wednesday, as forest fires raged at the height of the dry season, the state Antara news agency reported.
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Every dry season, smoke from fires to clear land for palm oil and pulp and paper plantations in Indonesia clouds the skies over much of the region, raising concerns about public health and worrying tourist operators and airlines.
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Since he was first elected in 2014, Mr Widodo, better known as Jokowi, has sought to stamp out the flames (there was another bad year in 2015, although forest-clearing fires are a feature of every dry season).
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"As we move towards the dry season in the coming month or two, we will definitely be water insecure as a country, particularly when small streams and rivers dry up," said Pamela Chisanga, WaterAid country representative for Zambia.
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Here's how those villagers concocted their nuoc mam: During the dry season, scarce water is diverted from one parched rice paddy to another, starting with the paddies at higher elevations where streams trickled down from the inland mountains.
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The single most encouraging study on the idea of a job guarantee comes from India, whose National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is meant to offer a permanent, guaranteed source of income for rural farmers during the dry season.
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"If we can improve the peat condition during the rainy season the risk of flooding can be reduced, and in the dry season, the peat can release water which will reduce the risk of forest fire," he said.
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