New Findings on How Trees Impact Droughts
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?”
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?”
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.
Negative rain(fall) occurs when a particular area experiences more atmospheric evaporation than water downpour over a period of time.
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.
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 … Read more