ScienceNews: Fresh water evaporates from the oceans, rains out over land and then runs back into the seas. A new study finds evidence that global warming has been speeding up this hydrological cycle recently, a change that could lead to more violent storms. It could also alter where precipitation falls -- drying temperate areas, those places where most people now live. Among the new study's more dramatic calculations: River runoff into the seas has been increasing by some 540 cubic kilometers per ......
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Warming is accelerating global water cycle
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 5th, 2010
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