The Drought

As pointed out in the "Water World" commentary, this is another part of Ballard's "Revelation of Elements" quartet - formerly known as the 'burning world'. That is another possibility for our future. The IIRC noticed just beginning to grab the people in the outskirts of the United Kingdom and then jumped to a dry and explosive future in a book a few years ago.

The latest update of the US drought monitoring report shows that more than half of the country (nearly 56%) is abnormally dry or in general drought. More than one-third of the country's countries are experiencing drought and nearly 8% of the countries are in extreme drought or special drought conditions. Tuesday 's drought map shows absolutely no contrast between the west and the east. Unusual droughts and droughts occur sporadically on the east side of the Mississippi River, but the majority of the land along the Rocky Mountains and the west side are in a situation that is somewhat tougher than normal drying. The most serious drought category - "special drought" - exists in the four corners and the Midwest of Kansas City and the northern part of Missouri.

One of the biggest and most common effects of global climate change is drought. As climate warming and precipitation change, the possibility of drought increases. These droughts do not occur anywhere, but where it happens, it can be much more serious than before. ForestGEO found that it is a bigger, older tree - the most carbon-rich tree - and when their local ecosystems are depleted they tend to suffer more. It is because it is more difficult to raise the water to a very high place. Crowns of big trees will also be higher and higher, so they will be affected by the high temperature of the sun, high wind speed and low humidity. Small trees are protected by surrounding trees

Extreme drought over many years is more common in the meadow than in the forest area, and this drought can even kill mature trees. However, plants of grass and other meadows have various roots that will help survive in dry season. The most impressive animals in the prairie are large herbivores such as bisons and antelope in North America, and zebras, gazelle, gnu, etc in Africa. Aphids may also be an important consumer of plants, but underground nematodes (grasshopper) and root invertebrates are actually the most important consumers of many grassland plant biomass.