NASA scientists find connection between fires and droughts in sub-Saharan Africa

Mongabay
Jan 19, 2017, 6:10 pm150 pts
Over the last several decades, the Northern Sub-Saharan African region has been hit by a number of severe droughts and the associated societal impacts, such as food shortages that result in deaths of both people and livestock. The Sahel zone, an area of semi-arid land just south of the Sahara Desert that…

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