Curious Kids: why do we have a drought?
- Written by Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
The heat makes the drought even worse, because it makes the plants more thirsty so they have to drink more.Tim J Keegan/flickr, CC BY-SA
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