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Warmer and drier ecosystems select for smaller bacterial genomes in global soils @Prof_Braj_Singh@twitter.com @ManuDelBaq@twitter.com
#climate #aridity #soil #microbiome #Genomics
@wileymicrobio@twitter.com @wileyinresearch@twitter.com
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/imt2.70#.Y7U92pK4vhM.twitter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iMetaScience/status/1610560846090088448

I changed servers to #humanities commons and lost my #introduction post. So here's a repeat: I profess English in #Idaho (lit, tech comm, and comp). I write fiction and personal essays about the #AmericanWest. I study #literature of the American West, mostly 20th C fiction and film. My research interests include the study of #genre the concept and individual genres (especially #westerns and #gothic), settler colonialism, representations or #water and #aridity, #narrative, and #Dylan (Bob). I watch too much soccer when I should be writing. #litstudies #rhetcomp #arsenalfc #westernlit

The #aridity in Eastern #Austria is enormous.
This is also reflected in the fact that the Myra #waterfalls have dried up for the 1st time in at least 80 years.
#Drought
https://california18.com/driest-autumn-in-decades/1240472021/

Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns

Human-caused #ClimateChange has “intensified” patterns of extreme #rainfall and #drought across the globe, a new study finds.
"..find that since 1950, human-produced #GreenhouseGas'es and particulate #atmospheric #pollution have influenced changes in #temperature, #precipitation and regional #aridity in two distinct ways. These two human ‘fingerprints’ are statistically identifiabl.”

https://www.carbonbrief.org/scientists-discover-new-human-fingerprint-on-global-drought-patterns

#ClimateCrisis

Human influence on joint changes in #temperature, #rainfall and continental #aridity

The leading fingerprint is characterized by #GlobalWarming, intensified wet–dry patterns and progressive large-scale continental #aridification, largely driven by multidecadal increases in #GreenhouseGas (#GHG) #emissions. The 2nd fingerprint captures a pronounced interhemispheric temperature contrast associated meridional shifts in the intertropical convergence zone.

#paywall

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0821-1