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Events in Drought-Stricken India Parallel Recent Experience in California

Andrew Burger March 28, 2017

Groundwater aquifers are being sucked dry amidst a two year-long drought as Indian farmers drill and pump more groundwater in bids to make up for shortfalls in precipitation resulting from the delayed onset of weaker summer monsoon rains.Read More

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A Hidden Carbon Sink Underneath the World’s Deserts?

Thomas Schueneman July 31, 2015

About 40 percent of the carbon dioxide released from deforestation and burning fossil fuel stays in the atmosphere. Another 30 percent is taken up in the oceans. It was thought that the remaining 30 percent of anthropogenic carbon was absorbed by plants on land, but subsequent measurements didn’t bear that out, leading to the question of […]Read More

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