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The ice fields on Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, are melting rapidly. In her Perspective, Gasse discusses the insights into past African climate gained from the report of Thompsonet al., whose Kilimanjaro ice core record may remain the first and last such record from Africa. Important questions remain with regard to temperature and hydrological changes in tropical Africa over the past 10,000 years.
The author is at Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement en Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 04, France. E-mail: gasse{at}cerege.fr
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