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Severe droughts happened simultaneously in the regions that supply water to Southern California almost six times per century on average since 1500, according to new University of Arizona-led research.

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Keywords: El Nino, Drought, Southern California, Hydrology, Water Resources

To understand how the relentless heat, blazing wild fires, and bone-dry conditions have reached such extremes, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are looking to the ocean.

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Keywords: Ocean, Wildfires, Australia wildfires, Drought, water cy, Indian Ocean, Weather Patterns, Extreme climate events, Climate Change, Science

Scientists predict a warming Earth will cause more droughts that are more severe in the grasslands of the central United States. This research found that soil drying affects the microbial community in several ways.

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Keywords: Microbes, Microbial Communities, Drought, Biological and Environmental Research, Ecology, Biology, Warming

The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade – and possibly sooner – due to climate change, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are “the canaries in the coal mine” for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, one of the senior authors of the paper said.

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Keywords: Climate Change, Glacier, glacier melt, Papua New Guinea, Ice Core, ice core samples

New research from the University of Adelaide has shown that climate and economic factors are the main drivers of farmers leaving their properties in the Murray-Darling Basin, not reduced water for irrigation as commonly claimed.

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Keywords: rural decline, Farming, Agriculture, Irrigation, Water, water economics, Drought, Climate Change

Study investigates effects of irrigation management on yield and profit

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Keywords: Water, Agriculture, Soil Science, Crop Science, Agronomy, Sustainability, Irrigation, Technology, Yield, Profitability, Conservation, Management, Drought, Food Security

Extreme drought’s impact on plants will become more dominant under future climate change, as noted in a paper out today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Analysis shows that not only will droughts become more frequent under future climates, but more of those events will be extreme, adding to the reduction of plant production essential to human and animal populations.

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Keywords: Climate Change, Droughts, Carbon Dioxide, global carbon cycle, vegetaion, vegetation production

Enough physical evidence spanning millennia has now come together to allow researchers to say definitively that: El Ninos, La Ninas, and the climate phenomenon that drives them have become more extreme in the times of human-induced climate change.

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Keywords: El Nino, El Nino Events, El Nino Southern Oscillation, La Nina, Climate Change, climate and environmental sciences, Coral, Coral Bleaching, Fossil Record, oxygen 18, isotope harvesting, isotope tracking, Pacific Ocean, Tropical Pacific, Equatorial

Scientists identify more efficient methods for evaluating heat tolerance

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Keywords: quinoa, heat, Crop Science, Agriculture, Production, Sustainability, Food Production, Secure Food, Drought, Genetics, Breeding, Plant Science

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