The World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday that the hydrological cycle was increasingly out of balance due to climate change and made a call for a fundamental policy shift towards better monitoring. And at the opposite extreme, more evaporation, dry soils and more intense droughts," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas in a statement as the U.N. agency released its State …
The earth is a dynamic place, where the movement of things – some fast, some slow, some whimsical, some railroaded by tremendous forces – plays an important role in planetary processes, including those required to sustain life. Tectonic plates move to relieve and accumulate stress, ocean currents redistribute nutrients, volcanoes pump minerals up, trees fix minerals into the soil. Evapotranspiration …