How Timbuktu's Ancient Manuscripts Impact Africa's Climate Map.

He's spent the last seven years running the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory, or TAHMO, a network of weather stations scattered across Africa that provides data to about 300 scientific organizations, including the WMO. That's one of Africa's biggest problems when it comes to tackling climate change, according to the WMO's inaugural State of the Climate report released last year. (Bloomberg) -- Weather station 61223 had been faithfully recording data on the temperature, wind and rainfall in the legendary city of Timbuktu for 115 years before March 30, 2012. [Extracted from the article]