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Microfossils unravel climate history of tropical Africa

Scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research obtained for the first time a detailed temperature record for tropical central Africa over the past 25,000 years. The scientists developed an entirely new method to reconstruct the history of land temperatures based on the molecular fossils of soil bacteria. The results have been published in this week's issue of Science.

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