parch

Now more frequent and more intense, they destroy ground vegetation and parch the earth, which kills the ants and termites that pangolins survive on.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023

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

White Cloud made haste to parch the rice, and soon a very hungry family was enjoying the fresh and abundant food.

From Two Indian Children of Long Ago by Frances Taylor

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

As people move up the slopes a pattern repeats: drought parches the land, turning grass into kindling.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2018

There, as I have shown, it probably indicates the Maya word choco, “heat, warmth,” alluding to the hot, dry season which parches and shrivels up the growing corn.

From Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. by Cyrus Thomas

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

It ignited near a hiking trail in the parched hills just northwest of the city on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

A scorching summer has shrunk rivers, parched crops and tested the continent’s infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Delivering droplets onto the parched crops requires meticulous preparation to identify suitable clouds.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

My brothers complained about the lack of worms for fishing and the difficulty of digging for them in the hard, parched ground.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

“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

With climate change parching the land and increasing wildfire hazards, scientists are beginning to use cutting-edge technology and computer modeling to make controlled, low-intensity burns safer, more effective and less disruptive to nearby communities.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

In addition, a severe drought is parching Italy.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 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