Researchers are calling it the 'mega-drift', or drought, and they say it has covered the region since 2000.
Climate change, although rising temperatures are causing the drought to intensify.
Some researchers are more cautious and say that it will be premature to call the situation in the region a 'mega-draft'.
When researchers compared the worst 19-year situation in the past to the soil moisture record from 2000 to 2018, it became clear to them that three of the last four 'Magadroots' were present. More serious than
The fourth worst famine in history, between 1575 and 1603, was the most severe in terms of its magnitude, but there is not much difference between the recent famine and the famine of the sixteenth century.
According to Dr. Park William, a professor at Columbia University in New York and the head of the study, the situation is exactly the same as it was in the first four decades of the Mojo drought. "In fact, the last 20 years are like the first 20 years of the worst famine in the past," he said.
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