#drought

Evaporative cooling consumes water as its core mechanism (~56 L/day above 30 °C per bloc° unit, against ~24 L/day harvested), and the climates where it works best are typically the most water-stressed — putting public cooling in direct competition with drinking-water supply durin

As clear-cutting slows, fire and degradation (selective logging, edge thinning) are now dominant drivers of forest loss, often the majority in a year. Metrics counting only over 70 percent canopy loss miss them, so a forest can be hollowed out as drought and heat make it burn.