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News Release 12-095
Dead Ahead: Less Rainfall for Drought-Sensitive Southern Hemisphere Regions?
Increasing aridity could lead to major problems for societies and ecosystems in already-arid places
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Hundreds of species of unique South African plants may be affected by increasing drought.
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Geoscientists Curt Stager and Jay White retrieve a sediment core in a South African lake.
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Sediment cores from South Africa's Lake Verlorenvlei, fed by an intermittent river.
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Curt Stager and Brian Chase collect a sediment core before a storm on Verlorenvlei.
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Christiaan King, Jay White help Brian Chase carry a sample of 1,400-year-old sediments.
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Curt Stager (center), Brian Chase (right) and Christiaan King with a core from Verlorenvlei.
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