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A new scientific study indicates the turn-of-the-century drought in the North American West was the worst of the last millennium—with major impacts to the carbon cycle and hints of even drier times ahead.
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NSIDC senior research scientist Tingjun Zhang, along with nearly forty others, hopes to gather enough data to form a clearer picture of how a changing climate may affect the plants, wildlife, and the people of the Heihe River Basin in the Qilian Mountains, which form the northeastern escarpment between the Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert.
