These changes are making water supply and quality more difficult to obtain, affecting runoff and soil moisture, increasing water temperatures, decreasing snowpack and lake and river ice, threatening fish and aquatic species, and allowing saltwater intrusion and sea level rise.
The second, known as Smos, is measuring soil moisture and ocean salinity, and was launched in November.
Local temperatures would still change in some places, as would ocean currents, rainfall patterns, soil moisture and photosynthesis.
The university team studied 18 rock panels and looked at the effects of factors such as soil moisture, salinity and height.
U.S. and global soil moisture improved throughout the 20th century as our planet warmed in its recovery from the Little Ice Age.
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As I documented in my October column, African deserts are receding, soil moisture is improving and crop production is dramatically increasing.
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In response, I presented powerful evidence that African deserts are actually shrinking, soil moisture is improving, and crop production is dramatically increasing.
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With more moisture evaporating from the oceans and falling over the land as rain, global soil moisture has been improving for more than a century.
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They will look, too, at the amount of ice in the ground, and the temperature and the moisture of the soil.
Working organic amendments such as compost into your soil will help it drain faster and retain a more even level of moisture.
Bolstered by increasing soil moisture, longer growing seasons, warmer winters, and the fertilizing effects of more atmospheric carbon dioxide, crop production continues its long and impressive run of ever-increasing yields as global temperatures warm.
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Fire ants, he explained, could build stable tunnels in sand or soil with almost no moisture to bind it together, so learning from them might enable designers to build and programme robots that solve these same engineering problems.
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