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A map of the most vulnerable places on the planet
2016-02-21 18:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: Climate change isn't just one, uniform transformation of the planet. Over time, some areas are going to get hotter, some wetter, some cloudierand vice versa. This map, produced using a new system for analyzing satellite data, reveals which parts of the planet will be most affected by these changes. Published in Nature, the map shows what the researchers call a vegetation sensitivity index (VSI). The VSI is a new measure of environmental vulnerability that combines several sources of data. The first...
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