Precipitation trends determine how often droughts and heat waves will occur together - Science Daily

Prolonged droughts and heat waves have negative consequences both for people and the environment. If both of these extreme events occur at the same time, the impacts, in the form of wild fires, tree mortality or crop losses -- to name a few examples -- can be…

The fact that global warming will increase temperatures over land masses, increasing the frequency of droughts and heat waves, is a certainty -- as is the fact that climate change will alter the aver… [+4881 chars]

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