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Climate Wars: Central and Northern America
Will Robson investigates the impact climate change is having on human security in Central and Northern America.
Will Robson investigates the impact climate change is having on human security in Central and Northern America.
He examines how global warming is leading to mass migration across the region, and how a spike in freak weather events is undermining basic social infrastructures.
He also hears why the avocado has become a “conflict commodity” in Mexico, and how climate change threatens the resilience of the USA’s power grid and its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Last on
Sun 8 Nov 2020
11:32GMT
ѿý World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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Leonard Sloan lifts a visor from the head of his wife, Maybelle Sloan, at their sheep camp in the Bodaway Chapter in the Navajo Nation in Gap, Arizona (Credit: Stephanie Keith/Reuters)
Broadcasts
- Wed 4 Nov 2020 13:32GMTѿý World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sun 8 Nov 2020 11:32GMTѿý World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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