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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

Den us drap de corn on de fire and parch it.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

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

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

As climate change parches more areas of the U.S., wildfires are increasing in frequency, and their season is starting earlier and lasting longer.

From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2016

Its flower is firm and fresh And stout like sturdiest flesh Of children: all The strenuous blast that parches Spring hurts it not till March is Near his fall.

From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Most of the rain that does eventually fall will be absorbed by the parched ground before it can replenish rivers, exacerbating the problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

He arranged the private screening to symbolically request Robert De Niro’s blessing to play the dangerously charismatic Max Cady, an ex-con parched for revenge against those who had a hand in his imprisonment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

For the most parched areas of the UK, there is unlikely to be any rain over the next few days.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

It was indeed refreshing, but no matter how much he drank, he felt parched.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

On the other hand, when the sponge dries out, it has even more capacity to suck up moisture from the soil and plants below, parching the landscape and turning it into tinder.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025

It is a remarkable reversal from 2021, the season of scorching temperatures and parching drought that devastated farms throughout Western Canada.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2022

The trend is likely to continue as the climate grows warmer and drier, reducing snowpacks, increasing evaporation and parching soils that absorb runoff.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

A heat wave will bake Southern California through Thursday, boosting the mercury to dangerously high levels in some inland areas and parching vegetation that could serve as fuel for brush fires, forecasters say.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2020

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