Monday, April 20, 2009

Severity, length of past megadroughts dwarf recent drought in West Africa


Droughts far worse than the infamous Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s are within normal climate variation for sub-Saharan West Africa, according to new research[source: EurekAlert]

[Img: Water source, Kenya. Credit: mattman23/flickr]

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