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Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and the American West, according to new research. A team of UCLA and NOAA scientists found that while droughts in the last century were caused mainly... read full story
"For the same precipitation deficit, drought now is much stronger than it used to be in the 20th century, and drought also lasts longer,"
Photo: California's drought is forcing the state's cattle ranchers to downsize their herds