Rare triple-dip La Niña is mostly to blame for South America's drought

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Historically dry and hot weather in Argentina and neighbouring countries is being driven by the La Niña weather system and exacerbated by climate change

Even though rain has returned to some parts of Europe, the severe heat and drought this summer will kill many trees over the next two or three yearsModelling suggests that if climate change continues at current rates, the amount of land in extreme drought could more than double by 2100, while the number of people affected

could more than triplePatterns of drought and deluge are common throughout history, but human-driven climate change is disrupting these cycles, making it more difficult to predict exactly how the current megadought in south-western North America will endFrom individual water use to lessons from past civilisations, here's what our

 

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Nope .., u do realise that most of the water is on super market shelf’s for example.. some known and not known it’s in the news . pumped close to a 100 trillion litres out of lakes and rivers and shelved it from a 7 % source .. its no good for nature in a bottle

Stupid lies

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