Australia; International
The increasing move of people into cities is creating warmer and drier urban environments that suppress light rainfall and aggravate extreme local drought conditions, according to Chinese research. The research found that over half of the world’s cities showed increasing measures of drought with urbanisation although South East Queensland cities were one of the few places that bucked the global trends and showed decreasing drought severity with urbanisation. The research found that large cities and those with less green cover are likely to have experienced even greater worsening of drought. The researchers also looked specifically at the greater Sydney area and found that there had been a worsening of drought severity due to urbanisation.
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