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Climate Change in the Great Plains
July 10, 2009 | U.S. Global Change Research Program

The U.S. Global Change Research Program released a report that explains how climate change might impact Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. Changes in growing seasons, declining water resources, higher summer temperatures, human health issues, altered ecosystems and higher temperatures are a few of the featured problems.


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