California’s catastrophic three-year drought may have had a surprising trigger

California's catastrophic three-year drought may have had a surprising trigger

Research published Wednesday suggests that the drought and its preceding climate conditions have an unlikely driver: the Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020. According to the groundbreaking study, massive wildfires thousands of miles away spewed so much smoke that they triggered a chain of events in the atmosphere that eventually cooled the tropical Pacific Ocean … Read more