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Rescued weather records reveal hot days became nearly twice as common in the Congo Basin over two decades

First reported 2026-10-12 08:00 UTC · Updated 2026-10-12 13:04 UTC · 2 independent sources

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…

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  1. 2026-10-12 08:00 UTCPhys.org · phys.org ↗
  2. 2026-10-12 13:04 UTCYale E360 · e360.yale.edu ↗

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