Farming practices may decrease rainfall

A pretty amazing finding cropped up in the news today - though it’s all a bit tendentious at present.

drought Australia

The unusual geographic effect of the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia has revealed to scientists that modern farming practices - apparently - lead to less rainfall on the farmed side of the fence. Maybe we have more to do with the drought than we’d like to accept?

Comments 1

  1. Eric Cunningham wrote:

    Perhaps we’re planting the wrong types of crops. Need to balance with natives.

    Posted 26 Jul 2009 at 6:52 am

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