Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward

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.

If you want to include this story in your blog, copy and paste this formatted text:

<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news165675816.html">Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward</a></p> <p>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 <i>Nature Geoscience</i>.</p>