The West is warming and drying so fast that a crucial drought-monitoring tool can't keep up, study says
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-west-drying-fast-crucial-drought.html
> Drought in the American West is becoming a persistent reality instead of a periodic emergency due to climate change, and a recent study found that an essential tool used to measure drought can't keep up.
#climateCrisis
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