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07-27-2016, 12:12 AM
Climate 'calamities' boost risk of armed conflicts in ethnically divided countries
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Drought, heat waves and other climate-related disasters may be fueling armed conflicts in countries where ethnic groups are sharply divided, scientists in Germany said.
In **rth and Central Africa, Central Asia and other ethnically fractionalized regions, nearly a quarter of recent conflicts coincided with devastating climate events, according to a study (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/20/1601611113.full) published this week in the journal Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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While persistent droughts and colossal floods didn’t directly cause groups to start fighting, “climatic calamities” did dramatically boost the risk of such conflicts breaking out over the last three decades, said scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Humboldt University in Berlin. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/26/climate-change-armed-conflicts/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Drought, heat waves and other climate-related disasters may be fueling armed conflicts in countries where ethnic groups are sharply divided, scientists in Germany said.
In **rth and Central Africa, Central Asia and other ethnically fractionalized regions, nearly a quarter of recent conflicts coincided with devastating climate events, according to a study (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/20/1601611113.full) published this week in the journal Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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