{
  "id": 13965075,
  "title": "Thousands of Handwritten Records Reveal Scale of Warming in the Congo",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/12/thousands-of-handwritten-records-reveal-scale-of-warming-in-the-congo",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-12T13:04:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yale Environment 360",
    "slug": "yale-environment-360",
    "url": "https://e360.yale.edu/digest/congo-climate-records"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Congo Basin is one of the few places on Earth where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to track the long-term shift in extreme heat and rainfall. The reason is a lack of readily available data. To fill this gap, scientists have digitized thousands of handwritten weather records, which reveal the impact of warming in the region. Read more on E360 →",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}