NASA satellites reveal Earth’s continents are getting drier

The amount of freshwater found on our planet has dropped significantly in the last decade, NASA satellites have found.

An international team of scientists reviewed observations taken by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites operated by NASA, the German Aerospace Center and the German Research Center for Geosciences. The data collected by GRACE revealed that beginning in May 2014, there was a plunge in Earth’s freshwater supply, and the planet has still not recovered. The researchers suggest that this evidence could also mean Earth is undergoing a drier phase than normal.

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