According to a new study, climate change is speeding up and intensifying droughts, particularly the fast-developing heat-driven type that catches farmers off guard.
Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing, heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found.
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Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious, especially a specific fast-developing heat-driven kind that catch farmers by surprise, a new study found. The study in Thursday’s journal Science found droughts in general are being triggered faster. But it also showed that a special and particularly nasty sudden kind called “flash droughts” by…
A study in the journal Science found that climate change is making droughts faster. “Flash droughts" only occur during the growing season and cast a bigger crop-killing footprint.