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Mariam Zachariah

  • Jul 24

    Climate change makes Europe's drought five times more likely as heat, not rain, drives evaporation

    A World Weather Attribution analysis finds that high temperatures, not precipitation deficits, are the primary driver of the severe drought gripping Europe, with evaporation conditions in the west made 80 times more likely by climate change.

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