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Madagascar’s famine has become a lightning rod for arguments about climate change, in particular whether global heating has contributed to the island’s crisis.
Parts of Madagascar are currently suffering through the worst drought the country has experienced in 40 years. More than 1 million people are currently facing famine conditions and hundreds of ...
UN says 28,000 people could soon experience famine caused by climate change. Matt Alderton is a journalist who covers climate and environment issues, renewable energy, clean transportation ...
Like most victims of famine and other climate-change-related crises, Madagascans and Somalis are — simply by virtue of being poor — among those who have done the least to cause climate change.
Famine threatens southern Madagascar after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, reducing people to eating locusts and leaves, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. The ...
Madagascar’s regular pre-harvest “lean season,” also known as the “hunger season,” is looming, Issa Sanogo, the UN resident coordinator on the Indian Ocean island nation said on Saturday.
David Muir reports on southern Madagascar on the brink of climate-induced famine "World News Tonight" anchor traveled to the island nation, where severe drought is causing sandstorms and crop ...
CHRONIC CATASTROPHE Climate crisis: One million people face famine in Madagascar, reports Amnesty International A man in a field affected by drought. in Andranosira, Madagascar, 2021.
As famine continues to spread across Africa, disaster faces the tropical island of Madagascar, which lies 250 miles off the continent’s east coast.
The drought’s human toll is enormous. Over one million people in southern Madagascar need food urgently. Residents have resorted to eating cacti and celebrating the arrivals of usually unwanted, ...
The world must wake up to the dangers of ‘business as usual’. Drought and famine in Madagascar, floods in Germany and China, wildfires in the Americas, Turkey, Greece and Italy - so many lives, ...