War And Global Warming

 NY Times: A New Breed of Crisis: War and Warming Collide in Afghanistan - Unrest and climate change are creating an agonizing feedback loop that punishes some of the world’s most vulnerable people. By Somini Sengupta

Parts of Afghanistan have warmed twice as much as the global average. Spring rains have declined, most worryingly in some of the country’s most important farmland. Droughts are more frequent in vast swaths of the country...