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LiveScience: The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including large parts of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a new study finds. The study is the first major one of its kind to look at the movement of water from the land to the atmosphere, called "evapotranspiration," on a global scale. This phenomenon returns about 60 percent of annual precipitation back to the atmosphere, in the process, using more than half of the solar energy absorbed ......
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Large swaths of Earth drying up, study suggests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 12th, 2010
Posted in Water Conservation