Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500

Lake Tanganyika has become warmer, increasingly stratified and less productive over the past 90 years. Analyses of lake sediments show that this recent warming is unprecedented within the past 1,500 years.

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