New data from 245 burned US watersheds shows wildfires spike carbon 🌍, nitrogen 🌱, phosphorus 💧, and sediment 🏞️ in rivers - up to 286× higher than normal, lasting up to 8 years.
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Wildfires drive multi-year water quality degradation over the western United States
Communications Earth & Environment - Water quality in the western United States is affected by wildfires, with sediment and turbidity levels increasing up to 8 years post-fire, according to an...
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Intense droughts may have driven the extinction of human Hobbits 🌵💧🧙♂️
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Intense droughts may have driven the extinction of human Hobbits
Severe droughts on Flores island likely doomed the tiny Homo floresiensis and their elephant prey around 50,000 years ago, before modern humans arrived.
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