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Australia is facing something pretty scary—a megadrought that could be unlike anything it’s seen before. Scientists say the country’s dry spells are getting longer and more intense, with some areas already suffering from severe water shortages. This megadrought could last for decades, making it harder for farmers to grow crops and putting pressure on wildlife and the environment.

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East Australian Fires: By NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) - https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Rivers of air: By Original: NOAA アメリカ海洋大気庁, Baba 496 - https://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/model-guida..., https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

ice core: By NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Ludovic Brucker, https://science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

dark band: By Heidi Roop, National Science Foundation (NSF), https://science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

Global surface temperature: By NASA/Visualizations by Lori Perkins, Mark SubbaRao, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

21st Century Temperature: By NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center -

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