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Impact of climate change in Africa

11-24-2006 · EurekAlert!

Africa is the continent that will suffer most under global warming. Past history gives us lessons on the likely effects of future climate change. Of greatest concern are the "large infrequent disturbances" to the climate as these will have the most devastating effects. In a study from the Kenyan Tsavo National Park published today in the African Journal of Ecology, Dr. Lindsey Gillson uncovers evidence for a drought that coincided with a harrowing period of Maasai history.

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