California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.

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New research has found deep water reserves under the state which could help solve their drought crisis.

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Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon.

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Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland

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The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.

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"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa

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It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

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Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

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They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

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A multi-year drought (干旱) in south-east Brazil is becoming worse.

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Droughts become more harmful than floods.

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Even this increase could sink some islands, worse drought (干旱) and drive a decline of up to a third in the number of species.

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Poor countries suffer less from droughts economically.

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Though heavy rains brought about by el nino may relieve the drought in California, they are likely to cause surface flooding and other disasters.

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Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

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That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

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