Work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to irrigate crops after China’s biggest freshwater lake dried to extreme lows by drought.
Along with providing water for agriculture and other uses, the lake is a major stopover for migrating birds heading south for the winter.
The heat is likely connected to human-caused climate change, though scientists have yet to do to the complex calculations and computer simulations to say that for certain. The “truly mind-boggling temperatures roasting China” are connected to a stuck jet stream — the river of air that moves weather systems around the world — said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts.She said a an elongated area of relatively high atmospheric pressure parked over western Russia is responsible for both China’s and Europe’s heat waves this year.
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