Earth’s storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it’s especially bad for farming
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This is the Way.
Desperate people work for low wages.Methinks people will be "lucky" to work for a loaf of bread
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The study also confirms an explanation for a slight wobble in the rotation of the Earth — it’s being driven by the changing moisture levels of the planet.
That's pretty interesting!
I also couldn't find out if "caused by global warming" more than by all the many ways humans are depleting aquifers etc, is guesswork for the reason. The data that got mentioned is just for the actual moisture depletion. And the full paper is behind a paywall.
Sorry about the paywall, and sci dash hub doesn't have it yet.
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(The) paper, published Thursday in the journal Science, finds that global warming has notably reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places, with potentially irreversible impacts on agriculture and sea level rise. The researchers say the significant shift of water from land to the ocean is particularly worrisome for farming, and hope their work will strengthen efforts to reduce water overuse.
Earth’s soil moisture dropped by over 2,000 gigatons in roughly the last 20 years, the study says. For context, that’s more than twice Greenland’s ice loss from 2002 to 2006, the researchers noted. Meanwhile, the frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological droughts has increased, global sea levels have risen and the Earth’s pole has shifted.
The study also confirms an explanation for a slight wobble in the rotation of the Earth — it’s being driven by the changing moisture levels of the planet.
wow I’m glad I don’t live there
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(The) paper, published Thursday in the journal Science, finds that global warming has notably reduced the amount of water that’s being stored around the world in soil, lakes, rivers, snow and other places, with potentially irreversible impacts on agriculture and sea level rise. The researchers say the significant shift of water from land to the ocean is particularly worrisome for farming, and hope their work will strengthen efforts to reduce water overuse.
Earth’s soil moisture dropped by over 2,000 gigatons in roughly the last 20 years, the study says. For context, that’s more than twice Greenland’s ice loss from 2002 to 2006, the researchers noted. Meanwhile, the frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological droughts has increased, global sea levels have risen and the Earth’s pole has shifted.
The study also confirms an explanation for a slight wobble in the rotation of the Earth — it’s being driven by the changing moisture levels of the planet.
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wow I’m glad I don’t live there
the united states is a part of the world
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wow I’m glad I don’t live there
hello fellow alien! please kindly abduct the rich ASAP
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Sorry about the paywall, and sci dash hub doesn't have it yet.
Nah that's fair enough. Lots of the best science publication is behind paywalls. At least the news article isn't.
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I’m no expert on the subject, by why don’t more people/companies look into indoor farming as an alternative?
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Tin foil hat time: our world leaders and capitalist owners, especially those of the right leaning persuasion, are purposefully ignoring these things and banking on large numbers of the global population to die off. It's much easier to control a more diminished, weary, and desperate population.
Defoil: they're just cashing in now because they're afraid too, but with all the money and power they will probably come out on the other side mostly unscathed.
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Unflag yourself as instructed.
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