parch
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Meanwhile, at Portchester Castle in Hampshire, the warm conditions have led to parch marks revealing the outline of a Tudor storehouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The parch begins in autumn, just as trees across the region shed their colorful leaves—a highly flammable fuel for wildfires.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2023
Both developments, he said, are caused by rising global temperatures, which intensify storms during some seasons, then parch the landscape during others.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2022
Many have fled, heading to neighboring Iran or living in abject poverty in camps for the displaced within Afghanistan as repeated droughts parch the land and shrivel pastures.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
They never got so far as to parch the corn or to bake the potatoes in their caves, but there was the fire, and the draft was magnificent.
From A Boy's Town by William Dean Howells
The unusual intensity of some of the fires underlines the increasing risk the continent faces as climate change parches vegetation and makes the emergencies more extreme, scientists say.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Great Salt Lake has already shrunk by two-thirds, as a broad swath of Utah around it parches.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Hot, dry weather parches the landscape, creating more fuel to feed fires.
From The Verge ● Aug. 6, 2021
When the chicks are older and the summer sun parches the landscape, she will lead them to higher altitudes for water and cooler temperatures.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018
The similar figures in Tro. 32c probably symbolize the dry burning season which parches and withers the corn.
Once the flames escaped, they spread into the rainforest's parched understory, the layer of vegetation growing beneath the taller trees.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
El Niño is turning the waterway into another chokepoint in a global economy riddled with them, from the Strait of Hormuz to the parched Rhine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
It ignited near a hiking trail in the parched hills just northwest of the city on Saturday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The wet weather will be welcome for parched regions of the UK, but a lot more will be needed before drought conditions start to ease.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It was a Garden of Eden of a hellish sort: isolated, untouched, parched, and rocky—turds of congealed lava overrun by “hideous iguanas,” tortoises, and birds.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
They are fighting a perilous battle with limited weapons against fires blamed in part on a stronger-than-usual episode of the El Nino climate phenomenon parching Southeast Asia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
This manifested throughout 2024 in so-called “weird weather,” from unusually extreme hurricanes and floods to intense heat waves, parching droughts and unprecedented wildfires.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024
“California taxpayers,” he added, “shouldn’t have to foot the bill for billions of dollars in damages — wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air, deadly heat waves, record-breaking droughts parching our wells.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
The Mill fire — one of at least three sizable California wildfires to ignite in the past three days — came as a massive heat wave roasted the West, parching the landscape.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
They already had a pile of birds large enough to fill the biggest parching tray, which Angeline had fetched from the camp.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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