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REDORBIT: A sediment core from a South American lake revealed a steady, sharp drop in crucial monsoon rainfall since 1900, leading to the driest conditions in 1,000 years as of 2007 and threatening tropical populations with water shortages, a team from Pitt, Union College, and SUNY-Albany reports in PNAS
A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet’s densely populated tropical......
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2,300-Year Climate Record Suggests Severe Tropical Droughts As Northern Temperatures Rise
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 12th, 2011
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