Argentina planted eucalyptus across grassland; scientists found the trees were pulling groundwater down by more than half a metre

• Image Credit: Par Margaret Donald/WikipediaA stand of eucalyptus trees planted in Argentina’s vast ‘Pampas grasslands’ was found to be reshaping the water beneath its roots.
• A study titled ‘Hydrological consequences of Eucalyptus afforestation in the Argentine Pampas’ examined how a 40-hectare plantation of ‘Eucalyptus camaldulensis’ affected local groundwater compared with the surrounding native grassland.