Alabama Faces Uncertain Future After Drought
After one of the longest droughts in the history of the state , farmers in Alabama are facing existential problems. Some cannot produce enough food to feed their animals, others are considering selling their farm. Plants and animals in lakes and rivers are in danger of losing their habitat
Words
- accumulate = come together
- cattle= cows
- crown = top part of the trees
- desperate = hopeless
- dire = extremely terrible
- diverse = different
- drought = period of dry weather without any rainfall
- drown = die from being under water for too long
- endanger = when something is in danger of dying out
- feed = food for animals
- forecast = future
- habitat = area where something lives
- hay = dried grass
- intense = strong, powerful
- lush = green, full of plants and vegetation
- measure = here: thing to do in a hopeless situation
- mussel = small sea animal with a soft body that you can eat
- obvious = for everyone to see
- parched = dry and burned
- pasture = area of green grass on which animals get food
- pattern = regular way in which something happens
- reproduce = here: to have babies
- store = something you save to use later
- troubling = to worry about something
- unprecedented = happening for the first time
- wither = to become drier and start to die