Monitor: Climate change is drying out the Horn of Africa at an alarming rate, say scientists.
Paleoclimatologists examined past moisture trends and found that the current drying trend is extreme, according to a paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances.
What "our paleoclimate records tell us is that this drying is really unusual in the context of the last 2,000 years," says study lead author Jessica Tierney, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Arizona.
"As greenhouse gases rise,...