Publication: Associated Press

UCLA Expert: Daniel Swain: Assistant Researcher and Climate Specialist, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Synopsis: Climate change is making droughts faster and more furious. Droughts in general are being triggered faster, but a special and particularly nasty sudden kind — called “flash droughts” by experts — is casting an ever bigger crop-killing footprint on farmers.

UCLA News:  “It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,” Swain said. He called the issue “very relevant in a warming climate.”

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