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Thousands of Handwritten Records Recovered From Archives Reveal The True Scale of Warming in The Congo
For wealthy and politically stable nations, the task of maintaining and digitizing climate records is a high-tech enterprise.
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Scientists have uncovered thousands of handwritten climate records from the Congo Basin that had been stored in an archive in Yangambi. The documents, written by hand over the past century, contain temperature and precipitation measurements that were previously unavailable in digital form. The recovery of these records provides a more complete picture of long‑term climate trends in the region. The archive’s preservation of the paper data highlights the challenges faced by less affluent countries in digitizing historical climate information.
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