Salt Lake Tribune: A warmer Southwest might very well mean a dustier Southwest.
That’s the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of California-Los Angeles that has far-reaching implications for all of Utah, where healthy range is vital to livestock, wildlife and recreation, as well as air quality and water supplies.
Seth Munson, a USGS ecologist and the study’s lead author, noted that looking at how climate change might affect wind erosion in arid landscapes......
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Climate change to create a dustier Southwest
Posted by Salt Lake Tribune: Judy Fahys on May 14th, 2011
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