Thousands of Handwritten Records Reveal Scale of Warming in the Congo

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Oct 12, 2026, 9:04 am103 ptsTrending
The Congo Basin is one of the few places on Earth where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to track the long-term shift in extreme heat and rainfall. The reason is a lack of readily available data. To fill this gap, scientists have digitized thousands of handwritten weather records, which…

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