How Biodiversity Can Help Shape Local Climate
Adam Sacks - Wunderground - January 23, 2018
Forests and biotic pumps
... vapor pumped by trees into the atmosphere may condense and creates an area of slightly lower air pressure ... lower pressure may draw moisture inland from an abundant water source, primarily oceans.
Protecting farms and ranches by paying attention to the soil
"The widespread decline of fallow in agricultural areas of the Canadian Prairie Provinces has coincided with a summer-time cooling trend since the 1970s."