When trees make rain: Could restoring forests help ease drought in Australia?

<https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-09-15/trees-make-rain-ease-drought/10236572>

"Although people have guessed that forests could help make rain, it's
always been a chicken-or-egg scenario: do forests make rain or do areas
with high rainfall grow forests?

An expanding body of evidence supports the idea that forests, in the
right conditions, not only make rain locally but also hundreds of
kilometres away.

In Australia, we've cut down nearly 40 per cent of our forests in the
past 200 years, leaving a fragmented landscape in their place."

Via Muse, who wrote "We need to be planting trees as fast and as widely
as possible."

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics