The landscape has been transformed by the wettest rainy season since 2011.
Published Feb 16, 2021Global warming would be worse were it not for extra vegetation that changes how and where heat builds up across the landscape.
Published Mar 10, 2021Tree and plant cover has deteriorated considerably in some areas, while advancing in other areas that previously burned or used to be frozen.
Published Jul 27, 2020New Zealand’s Southern Alps rise high above the landscape and influence the weather around them.
Published Feb 26, 2022As of early August 2008, the Oklahoma panhandle was experiencing its driest year (previous 365 days) since 1921, according to records kept by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. Through July, year-to-date precipitation in Boise City, in the heart of Cimarron County, was only about 4.8 inches, barely half of average and drier than some years in the 1930s, the height of the Dust Bowl.
Published Aug 14, 2008Southeastern Ethiopia’s longest river supports the growth of green vegetation amid the otherwise brown, desert landscape.
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