The Southwest dries up — and comes full circle — CS Monitor
The southwest dries up -- and the landscape ironically recovers from more than a century of human interference
The American Southwest may be drying, one of the predicted consequences of human-induced global climate change. Less water in an already semiarid region will affect how, and for what, people use water. Allen also suspects that tree dieback here may be part of a worldwide phenomenon. As temperature extremes have inched higher in semiarid regions globally, forests have succumbed to heat stress.
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