Los Alamos National Laboratory: El Nino-Linked Decreases in Soil Moisture Could Trigger Massive Tropical-Plant Die Offs
May 12, 2020
May 12, 2020
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release:
New research has found that El Nino events are often associated with droughts in some of the world's more vulnerable tropical regions. Associated with warmer than average ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific, El Ninos can in turn influence global weather patterns and tropical precipitation, and these changes can lead to massive plant die- . . .
New research has found that El Nino events are often associated with droughts in some of the world's more vulnerable tropical regions. Associated with warmer than average ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific, El Ninos can in turn influence global weather patterns and tropical precipitation, and these changes can lead to massive plant die- . . .