Extensive agricultural irrigation can significantly affect local climate and may be masking the effects of global warming in some areas, a new study suggests.
In arid and semiarid regions, irrigation enables farmers to grow crops that wouldn’t naturally thrive. But adding large volumes of water to normally dry ground changes the climate in many ways, says Lara M.
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