Can Climate Change Cause Conflict? Recent History Suggests So
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 17:00
in Earth & Climate
Some experts call the genocide in Darfur the world's first conflict caused by climate change. After all, the crisis was sparked, at least in part, by a decline in rainfall over the past 30 years just as the region's population doubled, pitting wandering pastoralists against settled farmers for newly scarce resources, such as arable land. [More]