The relationship between climate and dust storms is not well understood, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The word below is decade, ten years; not 2050.
A decade from now, (click here) up to 700 million people will be compelled to leave their homes because they will not have enough water, the United Nations estimates. This is a staggering figure. And yet, as Nature reports, drought is relatively under-researched.
The area is so neglected that scientists from Africa last week urged the UN to provide more support for early-warning systems to improve predictions of when a drought might be imminent. This call must be heeded. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned last month that the number of droughts in dryland regions has been increasing since 1961. Two years ago, a drought across Africa and the Middle East brought 20 million people close to starvation....
