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Study: Tropical rain band shifting north

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The Galapagos Islands, today an arid place on the equator in the Eastern Pacific, had a wet climate four centuries ago, new research suggests. Earth's most prominent rain band, near the equator, has been moving north at an average rate of almost a mile a year for three centuries, likely because of a warming world, scientists say.




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