Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification

Drylands cover nearly half of Earth’s surface, yet how they will fare in light of anthropogenic climate change is debated. Here the authors find that over the past 40 years climate change has pushed ~13% of drylands towards desertification threatening hundreds of millions of people in developing nat...

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Main Authors: A. L. Burrell, J. P. Evans, M. G. De Kauwe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17710-7