But biocrusts face an anthropogenic threat much worse than footprints: climate change.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/in-a-fierce-desert-microbe-crusts-show-how-life-tamed-the-land/

The lake’s watershed contains all the water that would enter the lake if people weren’t diverting it for anthropogenic uses.

Source: https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2023/04/14/dunn-utah-drought-great-salt-lake-water-use/

There are a lot of anthropogenic activities that result in climate crisis and with some sensitization and the involvement of the media in educating the masses coupled with state policies and an attitude change, our world will get better.

Source: https://www.ghanamma.com/2023/05/26/climate-and-sustinable-energy-transitions-advocate-charges-csos-and-ngos-in-the-climate-space-to-ensure-inclusion-in-climate-education-to-increase-impact-social/

There’s also anthropogenic climate change, or the kind caused by human activity, which could be contributing to the rapid onset of this drought period, Davis said.

Source: https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/ohio-and-pennsylvania-are-in-a-drought/776043.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ohio-and-pennsylvania-are-in-a-drought