What is the global water cycle and how is it amplifying climate disasters? Floods & fires are not simply isolated weather extremes, but signs of water cycle that is destabilised by higher temperatures

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What is the global water cycle and how is it amplifying climate disasters? Floods & fires are not simply isolated weather extremes, but signs of water cycle that is destabilised by higher temperatures

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What is the global water cycle and how is it amplifying climate disasters?

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Behind flood and bushfire disasters is a less visible influence: changes in the planet’s water cycle. Rainfall and temperature shifts are amplifying climate change.

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