Recently published research looked at the question of, “Instead of looking at how drought affects the forest, how might this go the other way around?”
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Physical Geography
Climate Change is Intensifying Drought in Southern California
A team of researchers from UCLA and Columbia University have found that the most recent 2012–16 drought had a greater impact on Southern California than it did in parts of the state to the north.
Physical Geography
What is Negative Rainfall?
Negative rain(fall) occurs when a particular area experiences more atmospheric evaporation than water downpour over a period of time.
Human Geography
Fighting Drought with Man-made Mountains
As a major drought continues in Africa and the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates is considering a project to create a “man made mountain” and seed the resulting clouds in order to produce rainfall.
Physical Geography
New Study Discovers the Worst Drought of the Millennium Occurred in 1934
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the worst drought of the last thousand years occurred in 1934 at the height of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. Scientists from NASA and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found that 1934 had the driest and most widespread drought in a […]