Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 14:21 in Earth & Climate

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.

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