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  2. Drought - Wikipedia

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    A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. [1]: 1157 A drought can last for days, months or years.Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems and agriculture of affected regions, and causes harm to the local economy.

  3. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Droughts affecting Florida were so severe that lakes were actually drying out. Wildfires, forest fires, and brush fires were very prevalent in association with the 2000s (decade) drought in the Southeastern United States. The 2006-2008 Southeast U.S. drought caused over $1 billion in damage. [77]

  4. Climate change identified as main driver of worsening drought ...

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    The researchers, including scientists at NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System in Boulder, Colo., wrote that human-caused warming has “ushered in an era of temperature-dominated ...

  5. Climate change is causing droughts everywhere - AOL

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    Warmer temperatures cause more water to evaporate, making both droughts and heavy precipitation more extreme. Climate change makes droughts “more frequent, longer, and more severe,” according ...

  6. How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts ... - AOL

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    Climate change has made droughts like this at least 100 times more likely, according to the WWA. Human-caused warming was also the main driver of drought in the Amazon rainforest in the second ...

  7. Southwestern North American megadrought - Wikipedia

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    The historical and ongoing droughts in California are caused by lack of rainfall (or snowfall), higher average temperatures, and drier air masses in the atmosphere. This leads to less water availability in the natural environment and in snowpack, rivers, and reservoirs for human use; these water shortages can have major impacts on agriculture ...

  8. Rising heat drives drought more than lack of rain, UCLA study ...

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    Since 2000, climate change has been the primary cause of both the expansion of the drought area and the increase in drought severity, with that percentage rising to over 90% during the drought period.

  9. Desertification - Wikipedia

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    The immediate cause of desertification is the loss of most vegetation. This is driven by a number of factors, alone or in combination, such as drought, climatic shifts, tillage for agriculture, overgrazing and deforestation for fuel or construction materials.

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