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 PEMBA, Zambia (AP) - Corn farmers in southern Zambia used to be able to predict the year's first rainfall, almost to the day. Now, October often stretches into November, and November into December, before the rain comes.
The rainy season in this largely poor southern African nation, a study shows, has been getting shorter, more intense and more erratic, especially over the last 20 years — symptoms of longer-term climatic changes occurring across Africa.
When the Live Earth global concerts kick off Saturday for a weekend of raising climate-change awareness, part of the focus will be on Africa, which is likely to be hit particularly hard by climate change, even though it is the lowest emitter of greenhouse gases. One of the eight concerts is in the South African metropolis of Johannesburg.
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