Water cycle goes bust as the world gets warmer

New Scientist: Earth's water cycle has been pushed to its limit. The amount of water evaporating off the land and into the atmosphere hit a maximum 12 years ago and is now in decline, new calculations show. Martin Jung of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and colleagues calculated trends in evapotranspiration "" the amount of water vapour that entered the atmosphere "" between 1982 and 2008. This moisture is either evaporated off the land by the sun's heat or released by ......

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