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East Africa's Climate Under the Spell of El Niño Since the Last Ice Age


August 4, 2011

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The current severe drought in East Africa is being attributed to La Niña conditions that prevailed in the Pacific until May 2011. The waxing and waning of rainfall in eastern tropical Africa, in unison with El Niño-southern oscillation, is not unusual and existed already 20,000 years ago, though the region's last 3,000 years have seen a less-stable climate. This according to a study published by an international group of scientists on Aug. 5 in Science.Full Story

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