Christian Science Monitor: Island populations are likely to face much greater scarcity of freshwater in the coming decades than previously thought, according to new research.
Current global climate models (GCMs) indicate that 50 percent of small islands will become wetter, and 50 percent drier, by the middle of the century, but this new study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, contends that a more accurate estimate puts 73 percent at risk of increased aridity.
The basis of this substantial discrepancy is that...