Drought Could Overtake Much of World by 2030, Rise to Unprecedented Levels by 2100

photo: Bert K. / Creative Commons Plenty of studies have shown that climate change is going to affect precipitation and water supplies, but a new one from the National Center for Atmospheric Research starkly lays out how droughts, some so extreme that they are nearly without precedent, may spread throughout many of the world’s most densely populated places by the end of the 21st centur… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Drought Could Overtake Much of World by 2030, Rise to Unprecedented Levels by 2100

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