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Come Rain or Shine...

Thursday 17 December 1998 00:02 GMT
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THE US FARMLANDS of the mid-west, dubbed the "bread basket", could be due a cataclysmic drought in two decades, fossil experts have warned.

Palaeontologists studying tree rings and other archaeological remains have discovered evidence of weather patterns which suggest that a drought to dwarf even the disaster of the 1930s Dust Bowl will hit North America by 2020.

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