New NESSC study helps to explain intensifying drought conditions in the Horn of Africa. --- For decades climate models show that increasing global warming leads to an intensifying hydrological cycle,
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Tropical mountains could experience greater warming by climate change than climate models currently predict, a new temperature reconstruction on Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak, suggests. For their work, the
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NESSC-researchers Loes van Bree and Francien Peterse are currently working around the clock as part of the ICDP drilling expedition at the crater lake Challa, situated at the foot of
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The climate in southeastern Africa turned progressively more wet the past 1.3 million years, in contrast to the general idea that the African continent only became drier over time.
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