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Monday, April 20, 2020

Science Alert article (20 April 2020) - Parts of North America Are Currently Heading For a Megadrought, Study Finds

Title:
Parts of North America Are Currently Heading For a Megadrought, Study Finds

Author:
David Nield

Published:
Science Alert, 20 April 2020

From the article:
"Even though air pollution levels have been dropping in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the climate crisis isn't going to go away. In fact, parts of the US and Mexico could be in line for a "megadrought" in the very near future, scientists warn."

To read this article:
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-warming-planet-means-parts-of-north-america-are-heading-for-a-megadrought

Original scholarly article, titled Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought, published in Science, volume 368, issue 6488, pp. 314-318 (2020):
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/314