Africa, on edge, now has to worry about catastrophic drought pattern

Past evidence points to much worse conditions than anything in the modern era, researchers say

By Andrew C. Revkin / The Bulletin
April 17, 2009

For at least 3,000 years, a regular drumbeat of potent droughts, far longer and more severe than any experienced recently, has seared a belt of sub-Saharan Africa that is now home to tens of millions of the world’s poorest people, climate researchers reported in a new study.

That....

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