March 9, 2009
An interactive map of Circle of Blue’s coverage of “The Biggest Dry“.
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[...] As you may have read on this very site, Australia has been suffering from epic droughts and more recently massive wildfires. The increasingly brutal climate is being described as “The Biggest Dry” and “it’s what happens when a nation purposefully designed to use an enormous amount of water collides with a hotter and dryer climate that produces much less rain.” In other words, global warming could indeed be real. Read more about how it’s affecting the Coogi homeland, complete with an interactive map. [...]
[...] Canberra, New South Wales — a region suffering from more than a decade of drought — water decisions transcend [...]